“Tie up this traitor who colluded with the enemy…”
One June in the imperial capital, beside the hibiscus flowers, she knelt in joyful anticipation of being named empress when a voice suddenly rang in her ear, cold as ice.
“The day the He family hands over the map of the Ghost Army will be the day Xi’er is favored above all the women in the palace…”
His sweet words from the past still seemed to linger in her ears.
The new emperor framed her family, and every last one of them was executed. Her eyes were gouged out and her face disfigured before she died. In the end, everything they had shared was nothing but a farce.
She swore that if she had another life, she would tear them limb from limb and avenge the He family!
The daughter of a military family, steadfast and clever, she gladly presented the map of the Ghost Army, never realizing she had trusted the wrong person. Granted the title of commandery princess by imperial decree, she spent half her life in a daze, orphaned and raised in the Marquis of Anxi’s estate, until she finally drowned in a pond.
She carefully plots her revenge, step by step, never expecting to keep getting caught by a certain grinning young marquis…
