Meng Weiyu, the eldest daughter of a salt merchant in Jiangzhou, catches her live-in husband cheating and decisively divorces him. Determined to keep the child but get rid of the father, she decides to buy a handsome man from the matchmakers to bear her a child. She brings home the exceptionally handsome but down-on-his-luck accountant He Jin'an and settles him in the Bamboo Garden. As they grow closer, she unexpectedly becomes pregnant. What she doesn't know is that the man beside her is actually Crown Prince Wei Linyuan, who was traveling incognito, ambushed, and thrown into the water. The emperor sends assassins south to silence him. Their true identities and shared blood feud are exposed, and the two eventually join forces to return to the capital, seize the throne in a palace coup, and rescue the imprisoned empress. She only meant to buy a man to have a child with, but ended up bringing home a crown prince.