To save her family, Shen Qinghuan is forced to marry into the Lu family, a mafia dynasty, and become the bride of the ailing old godfather from the legends. The wedding is lavish and bizarre. On their wedding night, when her veil is lifted, she is horrified to find not an old man before her, but a young man drenched in blood, with the eyes of a wolf: Lu Tingshen, the Lu family's true heir. The old godfather is already dead. To steady the empire, Lu Tingshen has taken his father's place and married her.
Shen Qinghuan goes from “sacrificial bride” to the laughingstock of the family, and is ruthlessly framed by Lin Shishi, the old man's former lover. Lin poisons her, slanders her, and even tries to have her drowned in a pond. But in her darkest hour, Shen Qinghuan awakens and forms a twisted alliance with Lu Tingshen, learning the mafia's rules of survival. When the committee's second-in-command launches a coup and everyone assumes she's a pawn to be manipulated, Shen Qinghuan presents the traitor's evidence herself and uses one enemy to kill another, transforming from a lamb into a black lotus. In the end, she not only secures her place as the empire's matriarch, but also executes her mortal enemy in the name of the matriarch at Lu Tingshen's coronation wedding, face-slapping everyone who ever trampled on her.
However, a secret letter from the Sicilian family arrives in silence: there are two rings of true authority. The storm has never really passed.
As Lu Tingchen and she test and outmaneuver each other, they gradually fall in love. When Lu Tingchen is attacked and the family falls into crisis, Su Wan is entrusted with the responsibility at a critical moment and reveals her true strength. In the end, she exposes the conspiracy behind the destruction of the Su family, becomes the true mistress of the Lu family, and makes history as Haicheng's first mafia queen.
