The heroine Shen Zhiyi volunteered to marry into the Marquis of Wu'an Mansion in order to bury her father in order to "bring happiness" to the eldest son Lu Jinnian who was seriously injured and comatose. Faced with an indifferent and mean mother-in-law, a sister-in-law with ulterior motives, and a concubine and a concubine who are fighting openly and secretly, she struggles to survive in the cracks of the Hou Mansion with her extraordinary powers of observation, superb skills as a prostitute, and her superb "waste utilization" ability, as a "living dead" wife. She broke the situation, established her authority, amassed money, and gathered people's hearts. She also secretly investigated the truth that caused her husband's serious injury, and gradually discovered the shocking conspiracy behind the Marquis's mansion and even the court. When the "living dead" husband unexpectedly wakes up, the two go from suspicion to joining hands to fight against internal and external enemies. In the end, Shen Zhiyi not only gained a firm foothold, but also grew from a housewife to a true matron who could influence the rise and fall of the family and participate in the affairs of the previous dynasty, achieving the transformation from a "dependent" to a "controller".
