She is the Chancellor’s youngest daughter. Though she seems willful and playful, she harbors ambition and will stop at nothing, even sacrificing love, to become empress.
Jun Xu is her best choice, but she meets Qiao Yu, a dull-witted, kindhearted, honest man. When love takes root and blossoms in her heart, all she wants is to stay by his side for the rest of her life.
But the first man she ever provoked, someone she thought she was merely using and being used by, proves impossible to escape.
Qiao Yu says, “I’ll treat you well from now on.” But he still cannot forgive her. One wrong step leads to another.
Jun Xu says, “As long as you have me in your heart, I’ll be a husband to you alone. This realm belongs to me, and to you as well.”
In the end, she does become empress. In the fates of these three, who betrayed whom, who hated whom, and who suffered and grew weary? They can only hope that when they first met, each was the best version of themselves. Chu Xue wonders: What is love, after all?
It's just that the ending is so tragic