Her reputation was ruined by a marriage certificate and she became an "immoral woman" among the nobles.
Many years later, during the chaos of the late Qin Dynasty and the conflict between Chu and Han, she lived in the Liu family and became the most inconspicuous female teacher, Shen Zhaoyue. In exchange for the protection of Huo's pass and grain road, the Liu family forced the spoiled girl Liu Wanniang to marry the cold-faced young master Huo Chenyuan.
On the day the marriage certificate fell, Liu Wanniang tore it up in tears, and the whole family was furious. Everyone was waiting for Shen Zhaoyue to kneel down and admit her mistake, but she opened a grain book and exposed in public the Liu family's conspiracy to seize the pass by borrowing her married daughter.
From then on, old stigmas, military food accounts, survivors of the Six Kingdoms, secret orders of the Han army, old cases of the Qin court, and layers of killings all came towards her.
Huo Chenyuan was originally the sharpest knife in Weibei. He was burdened with old cases of the deceased, cold and taciturn, and unkind. But he made exceptions for her time and time again: blocking rumors for her, drawing his sword to suppress the army, protecting her in his arms on rainy nights, and then retreating before losing control.
The marriage alliance is unresolved and the love becomes a crime.
She can't steal someone else's marriage, and he can't abandon Manguan people.
But when the military government surrounded the country, old cases were uncovered, and the real murderer appeared, and everyone thought Shen Zhaoyue was just a pawn, she used the food book as a blade and the stigma as a sword to overturn the Chu-Han chess game with her own hands.
In this life, she doesn't ask anyone to save her.
She wants the person who betrayed her to kneel down, the person who trapped her to bow her head, and the cold-faced general to understand:
Shen Zhaoyue has never been anyone's dowry.
She is the first wife in troubled times.
Purpose: In troubled times, women should not just be bargaining chips for family and power. They can also use their wisdom, courage and faith to break away from stigma and protect their own and others' destiny.