In the third year of the Mingqi era under the Great Yu, the realm is in turmoil.
Beiyuan and Nankang plan to join forces to conquer Great Yu, and war on the frontier is imminent.
But the Yu emperor neglects state affairs and spends his days in pleasure. The court loses its unity, ministers care only for fame and profit, and the princes are all scheming to seize the throne.
Amid this chaos, she catches one dazzling glimpse of a man of extraordinary talent and falls in love with him.
For his sake, she ingratiates herself with the powerful and influential, winning their support.
For his sake, she willingly becomes the villainous beauty everyone despises as the downfall of the realm.
In the end, all she gets in return is deception upon deception and a cup of poisoned wine.
Bitter with hatred, she drinks the poison and leaps from the city wall, reborn in the bloom of youth.
To take her revenge, she avoids her first meeting with him, only to become entangled with the man she had hated to the depths of her soul in her previous life.
This time, he stands before her, waving a folding fan with a carefree smile.
“Miss Liu, the sages say one should not gaze at what is improper. Staring at me so openly is rather embarrassing, you know.”
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