Ruan Zhiwei, the daughter-in-law of the Duke of Zhenguo's household, devotes herself to managing the family, only to be met with her husband Shen Yanzhou's coldness and betrayal. On her mother-in-law's birthday banquet, Princess Murong Yanran mistakes Madam Shen for Ruan Zhiwei's mother and cruelly has her fingers severed. Faced with her husband's protection of the princess and the Shen family's humiliation, Ruan Zhiwei's heart turns cold. She divorces her husband in public and reveals the truth. Shen Zheng, the great general who guards the nation, returns to the capital in a fury and expels his ungrateful adopted son Shen Yanzhou from the family. The princess also pays the price for her actions. After leaving a marriage built on misplaced devotion, Ruan Zhiwei takes over the Shen family's business, becomes the wealthiest woman in Great Qian, and rekindles her romance with Lu Feng, the young general she had lost and found again, gaining both success and true love.