Wan Shuyi, the wife of the Earl of Cheng'en's mansion, accidentally saves a spiritual bird and gains the ability to understand bird language. Peeking into a cruel future, she discovers her affectionate husband has conspired with her cousin for years just to drain her of all value, finally abandoning her to a mass grave. Cutting off all illusions of affection, Wan Shuyi uses the spiritual bird to expose their illicit affair and punish them. Afterwards, she acts with decisive ruthlessness, heavily retaliating against the wicked people of the earldom. In the process, she encounters the cold national preceptor who secretly holds a crush on her, breaking free from the inner courtyard prison, punishing her enemies, and walking out into a life of freedom that belongs solely to her.