After being framed as a collaborator by her stepmother and concubine, Shen Zhaoyao came back from the dead and changed her destiny with her modern criminal investigation thinking. The former childhood sweetheart, now the cold-faced general Xiao Jingheng, turned out to be the most painful shackles on her road to revenge. Lu Huaizhou, the young minister of Dali Temple, secretly handed over the knife, secret agent Pei Zhaoning quietly delivered the letter, and the betrayal of the concubine Xie Yunheng revealed a conspiracy deeper than collaboration with the enemy. When the truth under the imperial power was peeled off layer by layer, it was never her who felt regretful, but the nobles who thought she had become a withered skeleton.