After ten years in the countryside, the true heiress, Shen Qingci, is brought back to the General's Residence.
She thought her hardships were finally over, but her parents favor the scheming fake heiress, while her older brothers look on coldly.
Even her childhood sweetheart, her betrothed, returns to the capital with the woman who saved his life and brazenly demands: "Niang saved my life, so I can only marry her as my wife. You'll have to accept being my concubine. I'll treat you both equally."
Shen Qingci laughs, then tosses their token of betrothal into a brazier and brandishes the death-exemption medal bestowed by the Empress Dowager!
"You're not worthy. I'm calling off the wedding!"
Then she asks the emperor to let her marry the comatose Prince of Zhenbei, who has been unconscious for two years and is said to be doomed never to wake up.
Her biased parents and the fake heiress wait to laugh at her for becoming a widow while her husband is still alive.
But on her wedding day, Shen Qingci strikes back hard, puts the worst of them in their place, cuts ties with the General's Residence, and marries in grand style!
Once inside the prince's household, Shen Qingci enjoys a carefree life with her impossibly handsome, living-dead husband. She even talks big at his bedside: "You'd better not wake up. When you're about to die, I'll see you off myself."
What she doesn't know is that the comatose prince is not only conscious, but has heard every word she's said.
Then one day, a pale, powerful hand suddenly grips her wrist, and the man's voice, hoarse and low, asks: "Who does my princess consort want to see off, hmm?"
