On the eighth winter of living under the roof of the Yongding Marquis Manor, Shen Weiwan unexpectedly became pregnant. She humbly implored Heir Gu Yanci to grant her a concubine's status, but in return received only his deeply rooted concept of social status. Eight years of companionship and youthful tenderness could not rival the weights of power and advantage; he only wished to make her a covert kept mistress. With the Empress Dowager bestowing a marriage, Gu Yanci is set to marry Princess Jianing, who once caused her to contract the root ailment of uterine cold.