In the autumn of the seventh year of the Jianyuan era, the Pei family was defeated at Mount Fengming.
Overnight, the entire Pei family became enemies of the court. Their once-glorious household had become something everyone was afraid to go near.
The Pei men died on the battlefield. After hearing the terrible news, the eldest daughter-in-law died in childbirth, leaving the old matriarch to hold the family together alone.
Lu Wan, a female official in the Palace Governance Bureau, volunteered to leave the palace and enter the Pei household to repay the old matriarch's kindness. That very night, she held a wedding ceremony with the spirit tablet of the Pei family's second son.
Since marrying into the Pei family, Lu Wan has upheld its vast estate and family dignity. She punished traitors within the household, fought off enemies from without, and, by a twist of fate, gradually uncovered the truth behind the defeat at Mount Fengming, clearing the names of the thirty thousand Pei soldiers.
On the day Lu Wan died of illness, she had been granted the title of First-Rank Lady, and mourners came in an unending stream. As she lay on her deathbed, listening to the sobs around her, Lu Wan felt that she had lived without regrets.
When she opened her eyes again, she found herself back at the age of fifteen. Looking at her mother, who had kept watch beside her bed all night, Lu Wan felt tears well up in her eyes.
In a daze, she recalled that many regrets in her life had been made right through her own efforts. The one exception was her mother, who had passed away when she was young and could never return.
Given another life, Lu Wan took her mother away from the man-eating inner household and settled with her on a country estate, where they lived in peaceful comfort.
Unexpectedly, one day, the husband she had never met in her previous life, Pei Chenglu, the Pei family's second son, climbed over the wall and looked at her with a wounded expression. "Wanwan, are you abandoning me?"
Theme: After crossing countless seas, none of them was the one.
