In the seventeenth year of Yong'an, the prince got married.
Tens of miles of red makeup, the streets are empty. The only thing missing was the groom—Prince Xiao Yanheng, who was accompanying his sweetheart Su Yingxue at Qingyun Temple.
Shen Zhaoning lifted the hijab by himself, walked into the empty dormitory, and took over the accounts of the East Palace that had turned into a pot of porridge. She did not cry, make trouble, or hang herself, and within three days she kept the East Palace in order.
Everyone thought she was a perfect chess piece carefully cultivated by the Shen family, cold-blooded and cold-hearted, and only came for power.
No one knew that she was the one who saved the prince on a rainy night five years ago in the mountains behind Qingyun Temple.
No one knew that she had studied medicine for eight years to treat his old injuries.
No one knew that she didn't marry him to be a princess - but to let him see the real her.
But the prince only had Su Yingxue in his eyes. That gentle, sickly, and pitiful woman lived in the best courtyard of the East Palace, drank the medicine he cooked by himself, and sang his favorite songs.
Until Shen Zhaoning discovered that the birthmark on Su Yingxue's wrist was exactly the same as the "person who killed me" described in her mother's suicide note.
Until she discovered that Su Yingxue was also singing the "Homecoming Ballad" that only the daughter of the Shen family could sing.
Until she discovered that Su Yingxue was not Bai Yueguang at all, but a conspiracy that had been planned for five years.
When the mask was torn off and the truth was revealed, the prince finally knelt in front of her, crying and saying "I'm sorry."
Shen Zhaoning looked at him and smiled.
"Your Highness, I will spend my whole life repaying you for those five years when you admitted the wrong person. Is that enough?"
