
She was the disposable concubine, married off just to help her sister win favor.They buried her alive in a mass grave, pregnant and betrayed. Now reborn on the day of their shared wedding, she’s done playing servant. This time, she’s here to claim the title, the man, and the power.

The protagonist, Su Qingqing, is reborn and returns to the day she and her legitimate elder sister, Su Manli, married into the General's Mansion. As a concubine's daughter accompanying her sister, Su Qingqing deeply understands the humiliation of her previous life and the schemes of her elder sister and her mother. She refused the peach-colored clothes sent by her legitimate elder sister, which symbolized a concubine's status, and resolutely put on the crimson wedding dress her mother had personally sewn, openly challenging the hierarchy between legitimate and illegitimate children. Su Manli was furious about this, but her mother, Madam Prime Minister, had other plans, intending to "remove the mother and keep the child" after using Su Qingqing to bear offspring for the infertile Su Manli. Su Qingqing, who saw through everything, chose a different path from her legitimate elder sister when she married, thus embarking on her road to revenge.

This episode opens with a grand wedding taking place at General Huo Changfeng's mansion. However, a flashback reveals the female protagonist Su Qingqing's "previous life": as an attendant concubine, she and her maid Taohong were late for her sister Su Manli's wedding for some reason, not only missing the auspicious time but also being humiliated by the household servants and told to enter through a side door. Returning to the present, Su Qingqing has replaced her sister and become the main character of this wedding. When the groom Huo Changfeng enters the bridal chamber and, full of anticipation, lifts the veil, he is shocked to discover that the bride is not Su Manli, as he had expected, setting up intense suspense for the upcoming story.

On the wedding night, Su Qingqing, the concubine daughter attending the bride, was found in a red wedding dress. The general mistook her for impersonating the legitimate elder sister, Su Manli, and suspected her of ulterior motives. The general tried to probe her with words, but Su Qingqing cleverly defended herself, asserting that everything was a coincidence. She then turned the tables, boldly confessing that her "purpose" for entering the mansion was her profound admiration for the general, a directness that made the general look at her in a new light. Meanwhile, the legitimate elder sister, Su Manli, who had been stranded on a mountain road, finally reached the general's mansion. To her dismay, the main gate was locked, and the butler instructed her to use the side entrance. Deeply humiliated and furious, this incident sets the stage for future conflicts.

On her wedding night, Su Manli, the legitimate wife of the General's manor, faced misfortune from the moment she entered, and witnessed her husband, Huo Changfeng, showering exceptional care upon her stepsister, Su Qingqing, who came as part of her dowry. After an accidental fire, the General not only mocked Su Manli with sarcasm but openly chose to spend their wedding night with Su Qingqing, subjecting Su Manli to extreme humiliation. Su Qingqing declared the beginning of her revenge against Su Manli. Returning to her room, the enraged Su Manli, following the advice of her maid Mingyue, decided to use the manor's rules to put Su Qingqing in her place during the morning greeting ceremony at the beginning of the next month, officially kicking off the intense domestic rivalry between the sisters.

The illegitimate daughter Su Qingqing, newly arrived at the General's manor, is resented for receiving the General's favor before her legitimate elder sister, Su Manli. During her first visit, Su Qingqing faced collective harassment led by the legal wife Su Manli, aided by concubines Huang Li and Zhang Xiaoxiao. They verbally shamed Su Qingqing for her "illegitimate" status. Facing the provocation, Su Qingqing calmly analyzed the backgrounds and personalities of her opponents and cleverly counterattacked by stating that "the children of all concubines present are also illegitimate." This successfully redirected the conflict towards all the concubines and thoroughly enraged the highest-ranking Su Manli.

This episode centers on the rivalry between the wives and concubines in the general's inner residence. General's primary wife, Su Manli, and her allies publicly humiliate Concubine Lin, who is the mother of twins. The protagonist, Su Qingqing, possessing memories of a past life, foresees that these twins will be murdered today, enabling Su Manli to gain absolute power in the inner chambers. To foil Su Manli's plot and secure allies for herself, Su Qingqing decides to intervene. She cleverly approaches and takes Concubine Lin's children under the pretext of offering snacks and playtime, intending to alter their fate and transform Concubine Lin and her two children into her strategic pieces against Su Manli.

Su Qingqing (Concubine Su) kindly treats Lin Rusu's children, Huo Nan and Huo Bei, which draws the jealousy of the legitimate wife, Su Manli. In the garden, Su Qingqing is overcome with emotion by the surroundings and sheds tears for her deceased child. The kind Huo Nan and Huo Bei try to comfort her by picking flowers. At this moment, another concubine offers pear paste to Su Manli. Huo Nan accidentally bumps into her, spilling the pear paste on Su Manli. Su Manli's maid immediately frames Concubine Lin as the instigator. Su Manli then seizes the opportunity, publicly humiliating Huo Nan and violently forcing the pear paste into his mouth, revealing her vicious side.

This episode's plot revolves around a brutal murder within the inner chambers. General's wife Su Manli, driven by jealousy, personally poisoned her concubine-born son, Huo Nan, with pastries. To cover up the crime, she ordered her maid Ming Yue to throw the surviving concubine-born daughter, Huo Bei, along with Huo Nan's body, into a well. Another favored concubine, Su Qingqing, heard Huo Bei's cries for help and rushed over, only to witness the horrifying scene and realize that this "accident" was orchestrated by her own elder sister, Su Manli. Su Qingqing's scream attracted the manor's master, the General, setting the stage for the upcoming confrontation and conflict.

The episode opens by revealing a conspiracy targeting children, as General's Mansion's two children, Huo Nan and Huo Bei, are thrown into a well. The perpetrators, Su Manli and her maid, believed they had acted unnoticed, but were unexpectedly discovered by Su Qingqing. Su Qingqing desperately rescued the two children, but they were already on the verge of death. In front of everyone, Su Qingqing was distraught with grief and immediately identified her elder sister, Su Manli, as the culprit. When Su Manli vehemently denied it, Su Qingqing's pent-up resentment erupted, and she slapped her three times, seeking revenge for the children and for her own past grievances, thus completely escalating the sisters' conflict.

The episode opens with an intense confrontation. The concubine's daughter, Su Qingqing, publicly accuses her legitimate elder sister, Su Manli, a first-rank Duchess, of being a "poisonous woman" who harmed children. Su Manli vehemently denies this, using her noble status to suppress Su Qingqing, while also presenting Huang Li and Madam Zhang as witnesses for her alibi. Faced with the combined rebuttal from Su Manli and her cronies, Su Qingqing angrily denounces them for "colluding internally and externally." Su Manli seizes upon Su Qingqing's lack of evidence and issues a challenge: if Su Qingqing can produce human witnesses and material evidence, Su Manli will submit to her judgment; otherwise, Su Qingqing will have to pay a thousandfold.