Shen Lingyi has been married into the Jing'an Marquis Manor for three years, always forbearing and yielding. Yet her husband, Lu Chengjing, to protect his delicate cousin, punishes her to walk barefoot across eight li of burning coal roads to make amends. In this romantic yet heartbreaking romance, her heart dies to ashes. She leaves behind a divorce letter, takes the begonia rooted by her mother to head south, turns around to reclaim the Shen family properties, and steps by step makes a counterattack. Too late to realize, the Marquis regrets bitterly, travels thousands of miles south to seek his wife, only to be met with her cold rupture and layer upon layer of reversed, aged truths.