The Shen family was brutally wiped out, and Shen Zhiwei escaped death under the cover of the body of the housekeeper Lao Zhou. She witnessed the tragedy all over her family. Her father, Shen Yunmo, was accused of collaborating with the enemy and executed, and her mother committed suicide by a dry well and left a message. Shen Zhiwei put away the blood-stained imperial edict and legacy letter, cut off his hair and disfigured his face, and hid in a smelly ditch to escape the searching soldiers. She kept in mind the names of the three people who drafted, approved, and executed the imperial edict. In the chill of early spring, filled with hatred and the will to survive, she embarked on the road of revenge alone...
