After the overthrow of the Shen family, Xie Nianzhao went from being a noble daughter of a noble family to a down-and-out orphan girl that everyone avoided. Others thought that she had lost the protection of her family and could only bow her head and accept her fate for the rest of her life. But no one knows that what Shen left behind was not only the wealth of the family - Beidi Trading Road, Qingjiang Boat Gang, old military accounts, and a dark web that has been dormant for many years are still in her hands.
And Pei Jingheng is the sharpest knife in the court. He was born into an aristocratic family and had a deep mind, making his way step by step in the turbulent temple; she stayed behind and pursued the truth of the Shen family's downfall along the trade routes and rivers and lakes. Two people who each have secrets are forced to go together because of marriage, from testing each other to trusting each other in life and death.
At first, it was Pei Jingheng who shielded her from the storm and protected her from returning to the chess game.
Later, after his great achievements shocked the emperor, he was in a desperate situation, and no one in the civil and military dynasties dared to save him. The woman who was once despised by everyone mobilized the business circles and political forces in the North to come out of the snow to carve out a way for him to survive.
The world only knows that the snow is cold in the east mountains, but they don't know that after the snow is gone, old cases will be overturned and the mountains and rivers will change. She used the rivers and lakes to support his temple, and he used his life to illuminate her return.
