Jiang Zhi comes from a family of scholars renowned for bearing sons; every daughter married off from her family has been blessed with many children. Only Jiang Zhi, married to Xie Jingyuan, the Marquis of Yongning, for seven years, remains childless. After seven years without an heir, Xie Jingyuan begins planning to take another wife. When Jiang Zhi finds out, she resolutely chooses an amicable divorce. Three days later, she remarries the widower Zhou Jin. She expects this marriage to be no different from the last, but after the wedding she discovers that Zhou Jin, though cold on the outside and full of fierce desire, constantly and unintentionally shows her respect and protection. Through their time together, Jiang Zhi truly falls for him. Xie Jingyuan is consumed by regret, but it is all too late.

Second Marriage, With Child (77 episodes)