Lin Wantang, a 28-year-old cultural relic restorer, is best at putting broken ancient paintings back together bit by bit. Until that rainy night, when she was repairing a painting of an unknown lady from the Southern Song Dynasty, she was struck by lightning. When she woke up, she had become a substitute bride in Lin'an City who was about to be sent to the Prime Minister's Palace.
She was supposed to be the daughter of the Prime Minister, but she was reduced to a lowly status due to the overthrow of her family. The original owner of this body had already committed suicide in despair.
She was unwilling to give in. In modern times, she can use her skills to regenerate ancient paintings that were broken into hundreds of pieces; here, she also wants to make this body that was crushed by fate stand firm again.
But she didn't expect that Mr. Pei, the powerful man in the Prime Minister's Mansion, would see through her "difference" at a glance.
"You are not her." His voice was calm, but his eyes were like a scalpel, trying to cut open her skin to see what was inside.
Lin Wantang thought he was hiding well. But she didn't know that in this era of calculations, a woman who was "unlike the ancients" was either regarded as a monster or - as a pawn.
Pei Yanzhi asked her to make the third type: a knife.
He wanted her to marry into the palace as the prime minister's legitimate daughter, and become the sharpest secret chess he placed beside the emperor.
Lin Wantang smiled and said yes, but she was thinking about another thing: she would indeed enter the palace, but not for his ambition of Pei Yanzhi - she remembered that page in the history book: In the fourth year of Jianyan, the Jin soldiers went south, Lin'an city was destroyed, the palace was burned, and countless treasures, calligraphy and paintings were burned.
