Shen Yan, an illegitimate daughter of the Shen family's third branch, was raised in a side courtyard from childhood, and everyone thought her as dull as a block of wood. At her coming-of-age ceremony, her stepmother publicly tried to give her to a wastrel as a concubine. Instead, Shen Yan smiled and pulled out a ten-year-old ledger, reading aloud three irrefutable cases of her stepmother withholding money from the branch. Her stepmother lost her composure on the spot, and for the first time, the grandmother looked at Shen Yan properly. But Shen Yan wanted more than just to survive: she wanted to uncover the truth about her mother's death, reclaim the dowry that had been stolen, and take control of her own fate, step by step, in this deep mansion where rules devoured people. And the young outsider who kept stumbling upon her schemes seemed to have an identity even more deeply rooted than the mansion itself.
