On her wedding day, Jiang Tang's husband, Lu Wangxuan, is ordered to lead an expedition to the border. She spends three years alone in the bridal chamber, with nothing but the title of wife to connect her to her husband. At a clan birthday banquet, Jiang Tang is deliberately set up and secretly drugged. To her surprise, she discovers afterward that she is pregnant. To protect the family's reputation, her mother-in-law, Madam Zhou, plots to seize Jiang Tang's dowry properties, accusing her of immoral conduct and forcing her to retire to the ancestral temple for self-reflection. In secret, however, she orders people to attack Jiang Tang on the road and make her disappear without a trace. Seeing through the conspiracy, Jiang Tang produces evidence to prove her innocence, voluntarily requests a divorce, and devises a plan to escape the assassination by faking her death. She then lives in seclusion in a remote countryside village. Several months later, she gives birth to fraternal twins, a boy and a girl, and raises them with loving care.