Instead of marrying the concubine Shen Yuntang, he married Pei Han, the "wasted prince" whom everyone laughed at.
In the past five years, Feihou has been mad and crazy. He laughs at everyone and walks in circles in the middle of the night. He is a joke all over the capital. Anyone with a discerning eye would know that this kind of gifted marriage is used to send useless people away. Shen Yuntang's eldest sister rejected him because he was ill, but she stood up to him without crying or making a fuss. She just calculated two possibilities in her mind: if he was really dead, it would be better for her to live in the Hou Mansion than to wait for others to send her away in the Shen family; if he was not dead, there would be another explanation for his madness in the past five years - she would not suffer in either case.
But she didn't expect that something was wrong the first time she walked in.
The servant's stance at the door is a stance reserved for martial arts practitioners. There are few lights in the corridor, but their placement is extremely accurate, no more than one and no less than one. The man sitting under the lamp has a straight back and a tea cup in his hand, not like a neurologically damaged person.
He looked up at her and asked, "Are you here for your sister?"
It wasn't a question, it was a statement - he already knew it.
Shen Yuntang answered "yes", swallowed the rest of the words, and began to write down the first list of anomalies in his mind.
Here, Pei Han has been dormant for five years, waiting for an opportunity for revenge; over there, Shen Yuntang has entered the situation as a substitute, hoping to find his own way to survive. Two people with secrets are trapped in the same chess game, and neither one knows how much the other knows.
He tested her, and she tested him in turn. There were three meanings between the lines, and no one was willing to explain them first.
But as the game continued, the chess game became a matter of concern.
