Xie Lingyi, the legitimate daughter of the Xie family's first wife, died suddenly when her biological mother, Liu, was eight years old. On the night of the vigil, she had a high fever and was in a coma. She dreamed that after she was taken back to Beijing at the age of sixteen, she was exchanged for marriage by her family, devoured her dowry, and finally died in a conspiracy. Not long after she woke up, she was sent out of the capital for eight years under the pretext that her fate was conflicted and she needed to go to Jiangnan to observe mourning and pray for blessings. When she returned home eight years later, she brought back not only sobriety and planning, but also the keys handed over by Liu's old servant, the half-page dowry bill in the mezzanine, and the secret that Zhou's mother had hidden for eight years.
It's very depressing to watch, without passion.