In the Great Yin Dynasty, power lay in the capital, while wealth was concentrated south of the Yangtze. Jiang Qingwan, a noblewoman from a fallen family, became the wife of Fu Yanci, the Grand Secretary who held sway over the entire court, through a single marriage contract. She gave him all her love, managing his household and winning over those around him, believing she could warm his heart of ice.
Then his ideal woman returned to the capital, and rumors that he would divorce his wife and marry someone else spread throughout the city. She rested a hand on her belly, where she had just begun to feel the baby move, and looked at his cold profile as he silently allowed it all to happen. At last, her heart turned to ashes. In a raging fire, Madam Jiang, wife of the Grand Secretary, perished in the flames, leaving behind only a tear-stained divorce agreement that burned away every trace of their past affection.
Five years later, amid the misty rain of Jiangnan, he appeared in a private room wearing a black ceremonial robe embroidered with a python. Eyes bloodshot, he pinned her against the door, his voice hoarse and trembling. "My lady, your husband knows he was wrong." Jiang Qingwan merely pushed him away with cool indifference, straightened her red robe, and regarded him with distant eyes. "Lord Fu, you've mistaken me for someone else."
He had no idea that a five-year-old child who looked just like him was peeking through the crack in the door, muttering to the golden abacus in his arms, "Mother, this crybaby fool looks even easier to trick than the last one." With the truth of the past and five years of hatred tangled together, how will this possessive Grand Secretary win back the love he himself burned to ash?
