On the Lantern Festival, there are three thousand lights in Beijing, but the inside of Xiao Mansion is as cold as a blade. Xiao Hanxi, the eldest daughter of the Xiao family, forced her father to remove her name from the family tree in public, thus severing ties with the Xiao family. She has seen through the coldness of people's hearts since she was a child, and knows that her father Xiao Minglin is willing to sacrifice his wife and children for power and position, and he also wants to turn her marriage into a ladder of success. As the eldest daughter, she is good at riding, shooting, calligraphy and painting. She is intelligent, perceptive and observant. She is gentle and sensible on the outside, but on the inside she is sinister and decisive, with a clear sense of love and hate. For her, love is never a destination, but a ladder to reach the top of power and become the most noble woman in the capital.
Sixteen years ago, there was a heavy snowfall in Mengdong, and the storm in the Xiao Mansion was foreshadowed. The mistress You Hanyu is cold and self-possessed. Faced with the unexpected news that her husband brings back Leng Muyun, an old acquaintance from Yangzhou, and wants to take her as his concubine, her heart is as calm as water. She only laments that the Hou family lives in a deep house and will eventually add another idiot. But Leng Muyun, who seems to be weak, hides his ambition to take charge of the Xiao family. He visits Yuxuan in the middle of the night and reunites with his old friends, but they are separated by clouds and mud from his mistress and aunt.
As an adult, Xiao Hanxi met Shi Lingche, the deputy censor of the Inspectorate, at a palace banquet. He is the legitimate son of a concubine of the Ling family. He has superb martial arts skills and profound intelligence, but is also cold-blooded, ruthless, and profit-seeking, and will sacrifice everything to achieve his goals. The two are entangled in the whirlpool of power and intrigue, seemingly secretly in love, and every step is a test. Her childhood sweetheart, the second prince Chen Ange, was deeply in love with her and begged the Holy Father to marry her, but Xiao Minglin forcibly agreed to it for the sake of his career. Xiao Hanxi used her wits to overcome the situation, forced the prince to retreat, canceled the engagement, and finally married Ling Che.
She didn't know that this encounter, acquaintance, and agreement were all a careful calculation from beginning to end. Ling Che only used her and had no sincerity. Only Chen Ange saw through the mystery at a glance, and died to protect her on the eve of ascending to the throne of crown prince. On the day when the truth came out, Xiao Hanxi set up a dead end and let Ling Che, who had exhausted all his plans, be pierced by thousands of arrows and die. In the most decisive way, he ended love and hate and settled all grievances.
Concept: women's thought, feminism
