Everyone in the capital knew that the only thing in the heart of General Xiao Yan was the foreign woman Mu Nihuang brought back from the battlefield. On the wedding night, the groom was absent; on the day of the tea ceremony, the mother-in-law made things difficult. Shen Qingyuan, the substitute wife, was nothing more than a dispensable decoration in the general's mansion.
Everyone was waiting to see her cry.
But Shen Qingyuan didn't.
She took a shabby shop left behind by her mother and opened a teahouse on the most remote corner of the capital, named "Qingming Pavilion". Don't fight for favor, don't make trouble, don't blame others. She said that a man's love is the most unreliable thing in the world, and only money and ability are the confidence of a woman.
However, Xiao Yan, who never looked directly at her, began to appear frequently in Qingming Pavilion.
A cup of tea, a note, and a secret letter from the capital - when Mu Nihuang was falsely accused of being a spy for an enemy country, and when the court and the border made waves at the same time, Shen Qingyuan discovered that she had already been involved in a chess game. And the only chess piece in her hand is the shocking secret left by her mother whom she has never met.
This is not a story about Cinderella waiting for a prince to save her.
This is a legend about a woman who was stepped into the mud by fate, and relied on her own hands and mind to step by step from marrying and abandoning a concubine to becoming the most powerful woman in the world.
