Having served as a maid in the Marquis's mansion for 24 years, a single night of mistake caused her to flee overnight! Six years later, she struggled to make a living with her fraternal twins, only to be cornered for debts by malicious relatives who almost sold her daughter. Reuniting with the former Marquis at the Thousand Lantern Banquet, their bloodline was revealed, stirring up a storm. External framed plots, inner courtyard rivalries, seizing account books in a fire, and a shocking corruption case involving disaster relief grain followed one after another. Everyone advised her to accept being elevated to the principal wife and enjoy the glory of the Marquis's mansion thanks to the children, but Gu Wanqing refused! I do not want the elevation of a concubine, nor to rise in status through my children. If it is to be, let all six rites of marriage be complete, wedded from my own home, and stride proudly through the front gates of the Marquis's mansion! Relying on no man and depending on no gift of fate, the heroine uses her intellect to tear through the mud and live as the mistress of her own destiny!