In his past life, Gu Chen poured his entire life into giving his wife, Liu Ruolan, glory and stability, only to learn upon her deathbed that the person she truly loved was his own friend, Yang Kaiji. Reborn into a new life, Liu Ruolan willingly married the one in her heart, and Gu Chen no longer forced old ties. Relying on the experience of his past life, he placed first in both literary and martial imperial examinations, governed water and wiped out bandits, and marched step by step to the pinnacle of power, finally seeing Princess Changning, Zhao Hongling, who had remained unmarried for him all her life. Two lives of misplaced fate are thus thoroughly rewritten.