After lying dormant for ten years, she became the abandoned wife of the Gu family as the legitimate daughter; once she woke up, she stirred up trouble in the city with her scheming skills.
Su Jinyao, the most talented woman in the capital, is the eldest daughter-in-law of the Gu family. After three years of marriage, she managed shops for the Gu family, won over courtiers, and held up the crumbling family - but in exchange she got a divorce letter, a bowl of Juezi soup, and the stigma of "unruly women."
On the verge of death, she accidentally glimpsed the monstrous chess game behind her fate: her marriage was a carefully designed sacrifice, and that cold-hearted husband was actually a pawn of her enemy who destroyed her family.
People who have died once are least afraid of calculations.
When Su Jinyao once again stood at the center of the whirlpool of power in the capital as a "dead person", every step she took was on the edge of a knife. And the legendary cold-blooded and ruthless power minister Xiao Yan reached out to her when she was in the most critical moment, and set up a trap at the most critical place——
He turned his hands to make clouds and rain in the court hall, while she weaved a skynet step by step in her boudoir. He uses the world as a chess piece, and she uses the human heart as a blade. When she discovers that there is an unknown secret hidden behind his pressing steps, in this game with the world at stake, who is plotting whose heart?
