In the 17th year of the Republic of China, before her mother's coffin was cold, Ye Jingning was carried into the Governor's Mansion on a small green cloth sedan - to be the concubine of the ninth room. Her father's gambling debt owed her to the most murderous and decisive man in Fengcheng, Gu Beichen.
Everyone was waiting to see her chewed to the bone. But on the night she entered, she asked her maid to turn the faded red lantern on the porch to its brightest: "The lights in this courtyard will never go out again."
In the backyard of the Governor's Mansion, there were overt and covert attacks. Ye Jingning lowered his eyes and gave in. Everyone said she was a soft persimmon. Until Gu Beichen was assassinated and her life was hanging by a thread - she opened the door and took out a lancet from the mezzanine of her mother's dowry. With a knife and a medical book, she pulled the young marshal back from hell. People all over the city knelt down and called her "living Bodhisattva".
But no one knew that every day after she married into the Governor's Mansion, she was investigating a murder case from twenty years ago - the medical practitioner Chen's family, in which thirty-seven members of the family were silenced. The cinnabar seal hidden in the dowry was her only clue. And Gu Beichen is her biggest chess piece and her biggest variable.
He had already seen through her secret, but he detained her enemies one by one for her, waiting for her to kill them with her own hands. But when she discovered that his mother's death and the annihilation of her school were all closely related to him, she put a dagger to his heart: "Should I hate you, or should I thank you?"
He held her hand and prevented her from retreating: "It doesn't matter whether I hate you or thank you. Ye Jingning, the lamp of this life has been lit for you, you can't even think of extinguishing it."
Two strong men confront each other, marry first and then love. She is a doctor in sheep's clothing, and he is a protector in wolf's clothing. In troubled times, a light shines for a lifetime
