On the day of her grand wedding, Wen Lingyi, the legitimate daughter of the Grand Tutor, arrived at the Marquis's estate in her bridal sedan chair, only to run into another bridal sedan chair stationed at the side gate. Her fiancé, Lu Huaijin, intended to bring his cousin Liu Hanyan into the estate on the same day, having already schemed in secret to force her compromise using worldly gossip. With six years of affection shattered overnight, Wen Lingyi refused to wrong herself and immediately turned her bridal sedan chair around to return to her maternal home. Facing outside criticism and the difficult refusal of the male party to cancel the engagement, she tore up the marriage contract, decisively cut off the past, let go of romantic entanglements, took charge of the women's academy, and walked out into an independent life of her own.