[A strong female lead × no romance obsession × smart and capable]
Shen Qingci, the illegitimate daughter of the marquis's household, lost her birth mother young. Fortunately, the principal wife treated her kindly, and she was close to her brothers and sisters.
She thought she could live in peace, but after her elder sister Shen Qingyuan married into the Prime Minister's household, she died mysteriously, leaving behind young twins, a boy and a girl.
With her sister's cause of death unknown, their mother wants to marry the third sister off as a second wife to protect the children her eldest daughter left behind.
If the third sister enters the Prime Minister's household, her whole life will be ruined.
Faced with this choice, Shen Qingci, who seems so gentle and frail, steps forward without hesitation. “Father, Mother, I am willing to marry into the Prime Minister's household in my third sister's place.”
As an illegitimate daughter, she dons her wedding dress and steps into the Prime Minister's household, a place as deep and perilous as the sea.
In public, she is a gentle, virtuous second wife. In private, she is a hunter plotting every move.
She enters the game as a stand-in bride, luring her prey into the trap.
Amid the shifting intrigues of the imperial court, she must protect the marquis's household and her sister's orphaned children, while also uncovering the truth behind her sister's mysterious death.
