1. The leads are each other's one and only, with a little palace intrigue.
2. There are some angsty parts, so feel free to skip this if you don't like angst.
Song Qingyun was kidnapped by traffickers when she was little.
At the age of three, she was adopted by the Earl's household and became their daughter.
When she was five,
the Earl's wife gave birth to her own biological daughter,
and Song Qingyun became a lowly servant in the back courtyard.
In the end, on a snowy night, she froze to death in a drafty servants' room.
Given another life, she decides to escape this prison.
She asks the upright and honorable Crown Prince for help,
and finally gains her freedom!
To survive, she uses her skills to become the director of the Imperial Music Bureau.
But fate seems determined to be unfair.
She falls in love with the Crown Prince of Yan, who risked his own safety to cure her poison.
She asks for nothing, only that he survive the treacherous court.
One day, she hears that the Crown Prince is engaged,
and that he personally went to ask for his bride's hand!
Her heart shatters!
At a banquet, the haughty woman humiliates her,
and the person she loves
kicks her hard in the chest for the sake of his beloved!