Country girl Jin Wanfu married into the wealthy family Ji's family, and she stayed alone in the newlywed house. Half a year later, she received the tragic news that her husband Ji Suizheng had died in battle. The recurring nightmares every night, the small statue of Qingmei and the love letters hidden in the study revealed the cruel truth: she was just an insignificant chess piece from beginning to end.
Cowardly and helpless, she wanted to return to her hometown to escape the world, but was forcibly stopped by Ji Chengsong, the powerful uncle, and was trapped in a deep house. During the period of recuperation, he got lost and ran into his frail uncle Ji Che. He received a rare moment of tenderness, but he didn't know that there was a deep conspiracy hidden under this tenderness.
The cold and forceful uncle, the brother-in-law who pretends to be sick but is actually very rich, the deceased husband who never misses her in his heart, and the warm and sincere but possessive He Jiahui who appears later, four people take turns to break into her life. Multiple ordeals such as forced confinement, ambiguous pull-ins, the return of the deceased husband to pursue his wife at the crematorium, and the murder of her lover and fake death followed.
She struggled and swayed in four twisted loves, was imprisoned, coerced, and bound by obsessions from all sides. In the midst of pain, she peeled off the selfishness and paranoia hidden under the skin of the four people. The girl who used to be timid and humble, and would only cry when things happened, broke free from the shackles of love and feudal shackles, broke away from everyone's control, and completed her self-transformation.
Purpose: to expose the possession, control and selfish obsession in the name of love; to tell the story of a woman from the bottom class who recognizes herself amidst multiple periods of twisted love and the shackles of a wealthy family, breaks away from the control of others, abandons the idea of dependence, realizes personal independence and self-awakening, and has the right to choose her own life.