Shen Zhaoning

Shen Zhaoning, the eldest daughter of the Ningde Marquis Mansion, lost her mother at the age of ten and was fostered in the Fu family in the south of the Yangtze River for ten years. During these ten years, she pretended to be good, weak, and submissive. Everyone in the Fu family thought she was an orphan who could be manipulated - until three months before she was born, she turned over the table. The good-for-nothing cousin used his right hand to kick the good-for-nothing man in the lower body. He took advantage of the head wife and regained his identity as the legitimate daughter of the Hou family. By the way, he accepted a betrothal gift: Pei Yan, the crown prince of Dingbei. She accepted the marriage offer that was squeezed out of the capital's ladies, but it wasn't because she wanted to get married. Because she knew that her mother's "death of illness" was not an accident. It was no accident that the Fu family had been living under someone else's roof for ten years. Even this marriage, which seems to be a gift from heaven, is also a step in the chess game. She wanted to find out who had attacked the Shen family in Shuzhong twenty years ago, who had tampered with her mother's medicine, and who had treated her as a chess piece that could be discarded at any time. Pei Yan, the crown prince of Dingbei, is the actual ruler of the North. He was poisoned by a strange poison and was about to die soon, but he clung to the 300,000-strong army in the north and refused to let go. He investigated Shen Zhaoning, found out the "three-month period" she wrote to Doctor Wen, and found out that every step she took to get over in the Fu family was premeditated. He thought he was checking a chess piece. It was later discovered that she was another chess player. Pei Yan, the second son of the Pei family, is a well-known dandy in the capital. He was idle, uneducated and incompetent, yet he licked blood from the sword in the North for six years. He squatted in the old locust tree of the Fu family and watched Shen Zhaoning for three months. He went from "watching the excitement" to "being fascinated". He said: "Daliang does not need a second Princess Dingbei." Meaning, she shouldn't be stuck in that position.