Jiangnan female physician Jiang Yichi kindly saves the heavily injured Prince Jing, Xiao Yi, but is forcibly abducted into his estate by this obsessive man, held hostage with her life. From secondary consort to Noble Consort Chen, she is trapped deep in the palace for ten years. Giving birth to a son and being made consort, he conceals from her that he sends her imperial child to the empress's lap. Heartbroken and disillusioned, she sets fires, takes poison, and fights with her life, finally winning the freedom to leave the palace. Years later, the sovereign is consumed by bone-deep remorse, pursuing his wife in a crematorium style, but she only wishes to journey far away to Jiangnan and never look back.