Su Nanqing, the second young lady of a businessman, has been teased by her patriarchal family and suppressed by her eldest sister since she was a child. However, because of her beauty and talent, her father uses her as a bargaining chip to win over the upstart Shen Baiyu. When Su Nanqing met Shen Baiyu for the first time, a first-class official with both civil and military skills, Su Nanqing finally agreed. The two actually developed a true love amidst the calculation and became a loving couple.
During a palace banquet, Su Nanqing accidentally broke into the imperial garden and met Emperor Hao Yan, and he was missed by the emperor ever since. Hao Yan designed to transfer Shen Baiyu away, the Su family suffered a sudden disaster and his father was imprisoned. Desperate, Su Nanqing turned to the emperor for help, and Hao Yan easily rescued her, which made her secretly fond of him.
Unexpectedly, the emperor made trouble at every step, and framed Shen Baiyu as having an affair with a beautiful prostitute, alienated the relationship between the two, and even took advantage of the opportunity to forcefully kiss Su Nanqing. Su Nanqing stuck to her heart, but was forced into prison by Hao Yan and took it as his own. When Shen Baiyu learned the truth, he was angry and defected to the rebels. He was defeated and captured.
In order to save Shen Baiyu's life, Su Nanqing endured humiliation and committed herself to the emperor and entered the palace as a concubine. Although Shen Baiyu saved his life, he was relegated to the frontier. A pair of lovers, separated by thousands of miles of palace walls, will never be able to stay together.
This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.
