In the Dayan Dynasty, there were many aristocratic families, and there was an undercurrent in the court.
When the marriage decree was about to come to an end, Pei Yanzhi, the eldest son of the Pei family, took the initiative to choose a marriage - Shen Zhaowei, the daughter of the guilty minister. She has no natal family to rely on, so she doesn't cause trouble and is easy to control. She needs a status to protect her younger siblings. He needs a marriage to block the road to marriage.
Each takes what he needs and each finds his place. He made a promise to her: Do your duty as a wife, and I will protect your family. She said "Okay".
After her marriage, she left a lamp on the porch every night. At first it was the rules - a wife's duty, just like he promised to protect her family, everyone should perform their duties. He didn't care. Later, he unconsciously accelerated his pace home and couldn't explain why. Then one day the lights were off, and he stood in the dark corridor for a long time, only to realize that he had already gotten used to that light and that person.
I didn't notice it when there was a light on the corridor. I only saw it clearly when the light went out. By then, there is no going back.
The chess game in the court is bottomless. There is someone behind the marriage, there is something hidden behind the unjust case, and the person you trust the most hides the deepest knife. When the lies were revealed one by one, he discovered that everyone around him was plotting against her - except her. Her "deal" was clear from the start.
He thought he had chosen a safe move, but little did he know that this move would lead to his fall.
Some things are too late to know.
Purpose: Everyone gets what they want by contract marriage, pretending to be real in the day-to-day trivialities. She left a light on the porch every night, but he never asked about it; one day when the light went out, he realized that he had already fallen. Slow-burning and undercurrent, Machiavellian romance goes hand in hand.