Everyone in the capital knows that Pei Yan, the eldest son of the Duke of Guo, is a romantic man and is destined to regret his marriage as "the most heartless man in Yanjing". In the year when Shen Jianing got married, Pei Yan tore up the marriage certificate in public and abandoned her like worn shoes, making her the laughing stock of the whole city.
Five years later, Shen Jianing was ordered to enter the palace to diagnose and treat the Queen Mother because of his superb medical skills. Unexpectedly, the emperor, who was in poor health, only took a fancy to her recipe, and with an imperial edict, he actually married her to the person who had betrayed his heart. On the night of the wedding, Pei Yan, drunk and confused, pushed her against the corner and whispered in her ear: "Jianing, this time, is it your turn to betray me?"
Shen Jianing didn't know that the divorce incident that year was just the first step in the game between the emperor and his powerful ministers. And she was involved in this protracted chess game from the very beginning.
