Lu Zhaoning faced a life-and-death crisis when she woke up: her marriage partner had died, she was being treated as a scapegoat and was about to be executed secretly. She relied on HR's negotiation skills to figure out the person who came to kill her, and broke her engagement with the concubine of Dingyuan Houfu on the spot. In order to survive, she needed a "new supporter" and set her sights on Xie Heng, the poor county magistrate who she had "sent away with money". She thought this was a deal where each got what he wanted, but she didn't know that she was stepping into the "anti-marriage" chess game that Xie Heng had carefully planned for many years.
