Glory in Shadows

Shen Yaochu is the wife of General Li Jingchuan, and the general is supposed to be dead. The Shen family, of which she is a legitimate daughter, forced the marriage on her. Inside the Li Mansion she finds out that he is alive. He faked his death and has come back. She has her own reason for staying. Her mother died in circumstances that did not add up, and Yaochu has sworn to find out what really happened. At first the two of them are only using each other, he to keep his return quiet and she to keep a place in the mansion while she looks into her mother's death. The mistress of the house works against them, there are murders in the inner courtyards to look into, and behind those there is something the household has kept hidden for years. Each case they work through together makes them harder to separate.