Records of Yongjing

The iron hooves of Xizhao stormed the capital of Qiang, slaughtering the Southern Qiang imperial family. Only Princess Jiang Wu escaped by sheer luck. By chance, she met Jiang Youning, the ailing daughter of a Northern Yong general who had been left in the countryside. Jiang Youning begged her to live on in her place, so Jiang Wu assumed her identity and became the general's eldest daughter. From a jade pendant she found amid a mountain of corpses, Jiang Wu concluded that the Northern Yong royal family had a hand in the fall of Southern Qiang. Burning with hatred, she boarded a carriage bound for Yongjing, intent on revenge.

Soon after returning to the capital, she received a mysterious letter and an invitation to the imperial palace at the same time. When she first met Xiao Yuheng, the Fourth Prince of Northern Yong, Jiang Wu pulled out an old hairpin and pressed it hard against his throat. She was convinced that this man, who had once been a hostage in Southern Qiang, was responsible for her country's destruction. Yet Xiao Yuheng had a letter delivered to her through his younger sister, revealing a long-buried secret. An unidentified woman's corpse embroidered with a spirit-summoning banner, and bodies covered in Forget-Worry Grass unique to Southern Qiang: every eerie clue pointed to the same mastermind. Only then did Jiang Wu realize they shared a common enemy.

To uncover the truth behind their family tragedies and the fall of their country, Xiao Yuheng proposed an alliance, on the condition that they marry. But they had agreed it would only be a sham marriage. How did they end up joining forces to pacify the land and becoming a true married couple who ruled over a unified realm?