Shen Nanqiao, the eldest young lady of the Shen family, and Huo Jingshen were in love for five years, yet it ended in regret. To protect her young younger siblings, she voluntarily took her younger sister's place to marry far away to Macau, wedding Lu Tingyuan, the rumored power-holder of the Lu family. Little did anyone expect that the harsher the rumors about the husband, the more gentle and doting he would be toward her after marriage—a marriage by proxy unexpectedly traded for fate's most tender partiality and shelter.