Deeper with Every Step, Season 2

About the story

Shen Weici, the daughter of a concubine in the Marquis of Jian'an's household, refuses to be forced into marriage with an elderly official. Using her intelligence, she saves herself step by step and devises schemes to defuse the forced marriage. Song Zhang, the powerful heir to a noble title, is drawn to her intelligence and resilience and forcefully enters her life. Shen Weici had hoped to marry the gentle young gentleman Zhang Yuanheng, but turmoil repeatedly erupts within the household, and her father's principal wife plots to harm her again and again. Amid suspicion and emotional struggles, the two endure one household conflict after another, break free of the marquis's family's chains of self-interest, hold fast to their true selves through adversity, resist conspiracies, and seek a way forward of their own.