Yun Ruoxi, a talented girl from Yunjia Village, is extremely intelligent and good at poetry, painting and herbal medicine. She is forced to work hard to make a living due to her family's financial difficulties. She encounters Shen Zheng, the prince of Zhenbei who is visiting privately incognito, and the two become connected through an ink painting. Shen Zheng conceals his identity and pretends to be the son of a merchant. They were close in name, but Yun Ruoxi saw through it; in order to change her destiny, Yun Ruoxi decided to use Shen Zheng's power to go to Beijing to participate in the talent selection test; the village bully coveted her family's property and designed a trap to frame her father; Shen Zheng stepped in to save the siege, but his relationship with Beijing was exposed The old enmity of the city's dignitaries; Yun Ruoxi's amazing performance in the selection test aroused the jealousy of the prime minister's daughter; she found out that her father's old case was related to the palace secrets from twenty years ago, and Shen Zheng was the orphan of the deposed prince; the two worked together to investigate, but... Emotions and revenge are repeatedly pulled back and forth; in the end, Yun Ruoxi uses wisdom to resolve the crisis, Shen Zheng clears his grievances and is restored to justice with his military exploits, and the two resolve their past feud and get married together; the story shows the growth process of a talented woman in adversity who seeks a future through knowledge and is not dependent on others.