The Hidden Edge Behind Red Gates, Where Every Beauty Is Part of the Game

Everyone envies him: he rose from nothing to unimaginable wealth, has four beauties in his household, children all around him, and a family fortune that seems complete.

But no one knows that this wealth and domestic bliss are all part of an immense scheme he has plotted himself.

To hide his origins and eliminate future threats, he deliberately married a destitute woman, abandoned by a scholar and carrying her late husband's child, making her his principal wife so that a son could secure his place in the family.

To silence the gossip and pass as an ordinary household, he secretly used drugs and cunning plots, arranging things so that his two concubines would become pregnant one after another.

Only Qiao Yan, the gentle, perceptive, and unjealous third concubine, is the one person he truly cherishes, the one he would entrust with the rest of his life amid a half-century of dark schemes and bloodshed.