Shen Zhirou, the legitimate daughter of the Minister of Rites, married Gu Yanzhi, a doctor of the Ministry of Household Affairs. It was a good story that they were well matched. However, when her cousin Liu Ruyan enters the house, her life takes a turn for the worse. Although Liu is gentle and virtuous on the surface, she is actually deeply scheming and working hard to win the position of the principal wife. She planned the "miscarriage" to blame Zhi Rou, and also sowed discord, causing Gu Yanzhi to neglect his wife for three years.
In three years, Zhirou went from being the apple of her eyes to being an abandoned woman in the courtyard. She is cowardly, crybaby, and submissive. She eats leftovers every day and suffers from her aunt's anger. Even her daughter Nianqing also suffers. She thought she could gain peace by swallowing her anger, until Liu Ruyan attacked Nian Qing and almost killed her child. At that moment, her maternal nature awakened, and she was no longer a weak woman who allowed others to bully her.
Zhirou rushed into the study and slapped Gu Yanzhi several times: "Is this how you love your daughter?" Gu Yanzhi did not dodge and let her slap until her hand hurt, then hugged her. It turned out that he had known that it was a misunderstanding, and he had ignored her just to find out who was behind it, but he didn't want her to suffer. The misunderstanding was resolved, Gu Yanzhi took advantage of the Liu family, recovered all his expenses, and asked the imperial doctor to rescue Nian Qing.
After that, Zhirou was reborn, soft on the outside and strong on the inside, and joined forces with Gu Yanzhi to fight against the enemy. She outsmarted Liu's many frame-ups, defended her husband despite her pregnancy, and finally got Zhao Dehai, the mastermind behind the scenes, to bring him to justice. Liu Ruyan was abandoned and froze to death in a broken house. It was all her own fault.
Zhirou gave birth to twin sons Chengan and Chengning, and the Gu family was finally happy. Gu Yanzhi loves the house very much and sends gifts to the courtyard almost every day. He has changed from a proud husband to a "strict wife". Nian Qing became a female doctor, a chivalrous person in the Jianghu, and a pillar of the Ning court. The old lady left her alone before her death, Zhirou supported her
