The person Shen Tang hated most in his life was Xiao Jihan.
He ransacked her entire family and locked her up in a side courtyard of the General's Mansion for three full years, making her known as a "concubine" and being laughed at day and night for being the daughter of a guilty minister.
The thing she least wanted to admit in her life was Xiao Jihan.
The courtyard was never closed in the winter, and when she was sick, the most expensive doctor in the capital came to see her. Even the eldest lady of the Liu family, who made her kneel in the snow, was inexplicably impeached for three days and three nights afterwards.
She knew it was him.
But she didn't ask because he didn't tell.
Intent: In the name of imprisonment, the reality is to protect - a two-way rush bound by fate
On the night when all the people in the Zhenbei Hou Mansion were massacred, Xiao Jihan, who was ordered to lead the troops, spared Shen Tang's life from a pool of blood. The price was to imprison her in the side courtyard of the General Mansion and call her "concubine" to the outside world. This imprisonment lasted for three years.
Everyone knew that he was ruthless, and even Shen Tang himself should have hated him to the core. However, she gradually discovered that the fire in the side hospital had never been cut off. When she was sick, the most expensive doctor in the capital came to treat her. Everyone who tried to harm her paid the price in secret.
This is an unspoken protection. If he didn't tell her, she wouldn't ask. Separated by three walls, one identity, and a whole family of blood debts, the two people exchanged the deepest trust in the most silent way. The core of the story is not the one-way betrayal of "chasing his wife in the crematorium", but the two-way tolerance and sacrifice - he trades his future for her life, and she trades the rest of her life to restore his innocence. When love is entangled by the righteousness of family and country, the conspiracy of the court, and the hatred of family destruction, the only thing two people can do is to get closer and closer in the cracks of fate.
