Zhang Nan

The grand gates of the Rong family compound shut firmly behind Rong Shanbao (荣善宝). Cast out by the formidable Matriarch for defying family decrees, she leaves with little more than her resolve. Her crimes? Insisting on a proper burial for her aunt and the return of a young cousin wrongly declared dead. In the ruthless social hierarchy of their era, such compassion is seen as a dangerous flaw, a stain on the family's prestige. While Shanbao faces exile, another young woman within those same walls watches silently. Rong Yunshu (荣筠书), the delicate fifth miss, feigning blindness and fragility, nurses a secret vengeance that will soon ignite a chain of destruction. The stage is set not just for a family dispute, but for a moral collision that questions the very meaning of justice and legacy. A Tomb's Silent Message After her banishment, Rong Shanbao performs an act that baffles everyone. She commissions a new tomb near her aunt's resting place, on a peaceful hillside planted with delicate February Orchids. The name carved on the stone, however, is not a relative of hers. It reads: Lin Pingxiang (林萍香). This mystery woman is the long-deceased mother of Rong Yunshu, a tragedy the family…

The opulent halls of the Rong family mansion, famed tea merchants of Lin'an (临安), held a secret as delicate and potent as their finest brew. For generations, their fortune was attributed to a mystical heirloom: the "Tea Bone," a chosen family member born with an innate ability to discern tea quality and cure ailing tea plants. This myth justified every cruelty, every sacrifice. The elderly Matriarch Rong enforced this belief with an iron will, having anointed her granddaughter, Rong Shanbao (荣善宝), as the current Tea Bone. But whispers swirled that the true heir was actually the simple-minded sixth daughter, Rong Yunwan (荣筠纨), declared dead to the outside world to hide her perceived shame. While sisters schemed for favor, one remained in the shadows: the fifth daughter, Rong Yunshu (荣筠书). Believed to have been blind for twenty years, she sat quietly in corners, a silent witness to the family's poisonous dynamics. No one suspected her sightless gaze saw everything, or that her heart burned with a cold, patient fury. The Performance of a Lifetime Rong Yunshu's blindness was a meticulously crafted performance, a role she perfected after a childhood tragedy. Two decades prior, her mother, deemed of lowly birth, was cast…