Shen Wan died on the stone steps of the back hill of Jingbei Hou Mansion, with no one around him to die.
She lived for more than twenty years, married a husband who didn't love her, and stayed in a marriage as cold as frost. When her brother died in the war and her family fell into ruin, she was shocked to realize that her whole life was just an abandoned piece on someone else's chessboard.
When she opened her eyes again, she was back before she got married.
The person who harmed her brother in the previous life was the fourth prince Zhao Che - he collaborated with the enemy and treason, supported the bandits, and exchanged two thousand stones of military rations for Beidi war horses, just to invite Ying to go on an expedition and use military merit to seize the throne. In her previous life, she was in a state of confusion, knowing nothing and having no time to do anything.
She will not marry in this life.
She picked up her bow and arrow and walked into the shooting garden; she looked through the account books and played secret chess; she joined forces with Mr. Cangyang's disciple Pei Xingzhou to trace the remains of the roadblocks along the Dingxiang Mountain Road and uncovered the tampered grain and grass records in the secret book of the Ministry of Household Affairs. The token, the physical evidence, and the inn registration book—the three sets of ironclad evidence are scattered in the hands of the three parties, waiting for Zhao Che to ask for help on the day of the autumn hunt.
Zhao Che fell, but the sixth prince Zhao Yan in the dark was darker, deeper, and left no trace than him. Zhao Yan never acted in front of the stage. He created situations, won people's hearts, infiltrated the imperial army, forged edicts, and waited for the day when the emperor became ill from overwork.
She couldn't wait. She set up a pocket formation and forced Zhao Yan to show his cards in a hurry when he was not fully prepared - to celebrate the winter solstice, in front of the civil and military officials of the court, Emperor Jingwen asked the sentence word by word: "What did you write in the edict that you asked Zhongshu Sheren to draft?"
In this life, she no longer waits for anyone. She herself is the one looking at the moon.
