Shen Zhaoning, the legitimate daughter of the Marquis's estate, is reborn back to the day she signed the dowry escrow contract. In her previous life, after she put pen to paper, her dowry was emptied by her stepmother Liu Ruheng, leaving her trapped in a remote courtyard until she died of illness. In this life, she puts down her pen and investigates her own dowry first. Within three days, she unearths the blue-bordered stubs, matches Liu's small deposit mark on the altered terms contract, and inspects the new missing seal on the false IOU as well as recent account papers. At her grandmother's birthday banquet, she fires three questions in public, pressing step-by-step until the stepmother loses her composure in public. Her father signs according to the rules, the entire dowry is returned, seals are kept in separate custody, and private property recognizes only her signature. From then on, she personally takes charge of the storefronts and lives her days with crystal clarity.