Shen Heng, the daughter of a wealthy merchant from the south of the Yangtze River, was robbed of her life by a "marriage" telegram from the northern warlord Fu Yisheng. On their wedding night, she realized that she was just a substitute - Fu Yisheng's first wife, also named Shen Heng, died because of him and became the eternal white moonlight in his heart.
In the garden of the Marshal's Mansion, the already foolish woman in white cheongsam sat; outside the mansion were fifty thousand soldiers and horses, three provinces of territory, and a decisive and decisive tyrant of troubled times. Shen Heng watched with cold eyes, calmly making the "tablet", but unknowingly, with a bowl of pickled vegetables, a hibiscus tree, and a word that was neither humble nor arrogant, he pried open the man's heart that had been frozen for twelve years inch by inch.
When the truth is revealed - the original wife did not die of illness, but was forced to hang herself by him; the foolish woman was not his lover, but his sacrifice for atonement. Shen Heng stood in front of him and asked calmly: "Fu Yisheng, do you do it because you love her or because you owe her?"
He couldn't answer. And she had already made two preparations: either to see the whole country side by side with him, or to turn around and go back to Jiangnan and never look back.
This is a story about substitutes, guilt and redemption. In troubled times, some people spend half their lives to repay a mistake, and some people use a name to trap themselves. In the end, a hibiscus tree in the north told him: some flowers don't have to bloom in their hometown.
