Su Wantang, the daughter of the guilty minister, was used by her family as a pawn to atone for her sins, and was sent to the prince's palace to renew the marriage of the late old prince.
Her husband passed away before consummating the marriage, and she became a widowed stepmother with a shady reputation.
Living cautiously in the palace, walking on thin ice. His stepson Pei Xingzhi inherited the title of prince and is the real owner of the fief.
He is young, cold, and unfathomable. He showed respect to this "stepmother" who was nearly one round younger than him.
When he looked at her behind her back, the look in his eyes sent shivers down her spine.
Because the way he looked at her didn't look like he was looking at his stepmother.
It was like looking at another woman through her.
That woman was Pei Xingzhi's true love when he was young, and she was also the betrayer who hurt him the most.
Su Wantang looked so much like her that Pei Xingzhi accidentally knocked over his tea cup when he first met her.
A stepmother who wants to keep her reputation and survive.
A stepson tortured by forbidden desires.
A bad relationship that started as a "substitute" gradually burned into a prairie fire in the high-walled courtyard of the feudal palace.
And above the court, the undercurrent of seizing the legitimate heir is surging.
The big ship of the Pei family is about to sail into the center of the storm.
