In Lin'an during the Southern Song Dynasty, the capable Shen Qinghuan brought her dowry to support the Gu family. Before marriage, she and her husband Gu Changyuan made an agreement never to take concubines. However, Gu Changyuan brought back Liu Rouer, who was pregnant, breaking the promise. Shen Qinghuan did not impulsively quarrel, but secretly gathered clues and discovered this was a trap set by the Qian family to usurp their family property. At the family banquet, she exposed the conspiracy in public, successfully divorced, and established her own business firm to forge her career. Yet the path ahead is fraught with obstacles; can she break through worldly prejudices and carve out a world of her own?