On the wedding night, I married into the Old East Palace on behalf of my eldest sister.
The groom is the deposed former prince Xiao Chengyan. He suffered a leg injury and lost power, so everyone avoided him.
The whole capital is waiting to see my joke.
But before closing, I only raised my head and glanced at the rafters.
"Everyone, get out, this temple is going to collapse."
Half a moment later, the main beam crashed down, and the wedding bed shattered on the spot.
Everyone said that the beams were in disrepair.
But on that beam, I could tell at a glance that someone had tampered with it.
In order to find out about this accident, I got the opportunity to do a seven-day palace inspection.
Originally I just wanted to find out who wanted this happy event to turn into a funeral, but the more I dug into it, the more I felt something was wrong.
This old East Palace, which has been abandoned for many years, seems to be full of traces of time.
But in some places, the oldness is too deliberate.
There are some traces, and the cleanliness is too deliberate.
What makes me even more confused is Xiao Chengyan.
Everyone said he was dead.
But every time I took a step forward to check, there would be something more in his hand that shouldn't be there.
A key.
An old document.
A word no one dared to say again.
Until one day, he put the key in front of me.
"Shen Jianwei."
"Now that you've seen it, let's continue checking."
I suddenly realized——
The real trouble with this substitute marriage was never the marriage to a deposed prince.
But starting from that broken beam, I saw too many things that should not have been seen.
