At the opening ceremony, Shen Zhiyao stepped on Xie Huai's father's will and went on stage to receive the award, causing an uproar in the audience. No one knew that those were not his last words, but a forgotten scientific research blueprint. She, who is silent and aloof, and Xie Huai, a member of a noble family who pretends to be gentle, are entangled with each other in the storm of public opinion. Lin Tang's betrayal, Zhou Yanqiu's silence, Chen Zhao's encirclement and suppression, and Su He's old memories all reveal a buried academic truth layer by layer. When scholarship and dignity are intertwined, she must choose: rely on lies to reach the top, or use her father's legacy to smash the entire hypocritical rule?
