Everyone in the capital knows Song Wanchu is a calculating social climber. Because her father sacrificed himself for the Duke of Jin, she leveraged that debt of gratitude, carrying her father's spirit tablet into the palace and obtaining an imperial edict to marry the Duke's second son. But her father was only a sixth‑rank military officer and her mother a merchant's daughter; their household was lowly, so she could only be a concubine. The second young master, Liang Yuzhou, was upright and noble, the dream of countless noble ladies in the capital, yet he already had a beloved — his childhood cousin, Yu Huiyan. Song Wanchu barged in, causing the two lovers to be torn apart. Liang Yuzhou hated her, called her vicious, treated her coldly for three years, trampling her sincere heart into nothing. Later, Yu Huiyan returned to the capital. Everyone said Song Wanchu would soon be cast out, and Liang Yuzhou even warned her not to cause a scene in front of his childhood sweetheart. But what he didn't know was that when Song Wanchu married him three years ago, she had already asked the matriarch for a release-from-concubine document...