Thirteen months after Jiang Mingtang married into the Jingyuan Marquis Mansion, her husband disappeared, and her twelve-year-old stepson stabbed someone on his horse again.
The elder of the clan pushed the confession in front of her: as long as she admits her negligence, the child will be able to keep her reputation and she can continue to be Mrs. Hou.
Jiang Mingtang handed the confession into the brazier in front of the court.
"The injured should be compensated, and the children should be punished. But I don't admit anything I didn't do; and don't think about passing on anyone else's guilt."
At the moment when the fire light rose, she saw a page of broken history book emerging behind her stepson——
The eldest son Xiao Yan will be a rebel minister who sacrifices his mother's blood to the flag in the future;
The second daughter, Xiao Lingyi, will be a poisonous queen who uses secret words to control people in the future;
The youngest son Xiao Chi will be the Marquis of Xiancheng who opens the city gate at night in the future.
Jiang Mingtang did not regard them as born evil, nor did he use the future to condemn today. She checks the facts, assigns responsibilities, and lets those who make mistakes make repairs with their own hands; she teaches them not to take the blame, not to favor others, and not to harm others in exchange for safety.
But the deeper she investigated, the more she discovered that the out-of-control dark horse had been stopped by her missing husband. Before Xiao Chengyuan married her, he secretly reviewed her father's old cases.
Did he marry her because he admired her, or did he put her into a game of chess from the beginning?
Twelve days later, the side branch will seize the custody of the Hou Mansion. Thousands of miles away, a man who was supposed to die looked at the six words in the secret report, "Madam has taken control of the general seal", and finally made his way home.
Later, Xiao Chengyuan returned to the mansion and wanted to find out the evil spirits and regain his old power.
Jiang Mingtang closed the account book: "Master Hou, you can go home. Yin, follow the rules."
He lowered his eyes and looked at her for a long time, then suddenly whispered: "Then if I want to be your husband again, what rules should I follow?"
