Aheng, a maid responsible for tasting food, has spent seven years testing dishes for the unpredictable young marshal Shen Muchen, enduring his pathological control. When a new maid, Caiyuan, covets her monthly wages and rewards and volunteers to take her place, she is poisoned during her very first food test. Ultimately expelled from the marshal's residence, Caiyuan descends into madness and regret. Seizing the opportunity, Aheng reclaims her employment contract and heads south to seek a life of her own. Starting from scratch at Su's Embroidery Shop, she rises to become an independent head manager and buys a little courtyard of her own. Six months later, the young marshal arrives with a jade bracelet and banknotes, begging for her forgiveness, but Aheng coldly returns them. She no longer wants his love that came too late. At last, she firmly holds the life that belongs to her.