Shen Qingyan was originally the legitimate daughter of a scholarly family. When she was young, her family was wronged and her family was exiled. She survived by chance and lived in anonymity for many years. When she returned to Beijing, she became a down-and-out orphan girl who could be bullied by everyone. The concubine Shen Qingrou took her place and enjoyed all the glory, but her stepmother secretly poisoned her. The clan looked on with cold eyes, and the powerful circle waited to see how she died in the privacy of the house.
But they didn't know that Shen Qingyan looked gentle and frail, but in fact he was proficient in pharmacology and poison identification, human calculations, and house rules. She used a cup of poisoned tea to set up a trap, used a birthday banquet to regain her status as the legitimate daughter, and then used her reputation, dowry, clan rules, and testimony to fight back step by step, turning the palace of the Hou Mansion upside down. Just when she was digging into the unjust case that year, the powerful Wang Xiao Jinheng saw through her disguise. Not only did he secretly pass the knife to her, but he also publicly supported her: "Who dares to touch the people I protect?"
One wants to clear away the grievances of the whole family, and the other wants to set things right; one uses weakness as a blade, and the other uses power as a shield. Shen Qingyan and Xiao Jinheng went from testing each other to entering the game side by side. The liquidation of the inner house, the seizure of power in the court, the reversal of old cases, and the ultimate revenge were advanced step by step. When the prime minister's party troops surrounded the imperial city, all the powerful people in the dynasty discovered that the sick and weak legitimate daughter who had been despised by them had already included everyone in the game.
