Dayin has been a country for more than a hundred years. The imperial power is stable but secretly corrupt. The frontier army's cold clothes are rotten and mildewed. The accounts of the Ministry of War are whitewashed to be peaceful. The aristocratic family uses etiquette as a net to trap women in the palms of their fathers, brothers and husbands for life. Rong Mingwu, the concubine of the Yongning Hou Mansion, was charming and beautiful, but she was just a substitute presented to Prince Jing Xiao Qichuan by the Hou Mansion because her features and eyes looked very much like her sister-in-law Rong Qishuang.
In her previous life, she begged for family affection, pity, and a place to stay, but in the end she was pushed into a deadlock in the military pay case by the Marquis's family, her aunt, and the Prince's family. After returning from rebirth, Chunyu knocked on the window. She pressed the old handkerchief into the light with her own hands, smiled and thanked her aunt for her "grace", and took the initiative to enter Prince Jing's palace. She did not fight for favor or courtship. She only borrowed a side courtyard, an account book, and a name card to investigate the secrets of the Marquis's mansion and pry into the old cases of the Ministry of War.
Prince Jing Xiao Qichuan initially thought she was Bai Yueguang's shadow. In the corridor on a rainy night, he listened to her warm voice reviewing the accounts, which forced Granny Tanmo to kneel and tremble; in front of the steps on a snowy night, he put on a fox fur for her, but she took half a step back and gave the fox fur to the shivering soldier's daughter, and only whispered: "I'm not cold, she is cold."
Later, in the Golden Palace, she wore a red jade belt and a white jade fish charm, and was awarded the title of Marquis of Zhaowu. Xiao Qichuan asked for marriage, but she asked him in front of all the officials: "Now that the prince is asking for marriage, are you asking for my people, or for the military power in my hands?" This time, she was the one playing chess.
