For the sake of power and at his mother’s urging, Xiao Han Sheng betrayed the vows he had once made. Shen Gui Yi refused to sit back and wait for her fate. While he was away suppressing rebels, she turned around and married Yan Chi Yu, heir to the northern province.
On their wedding night, she dreamed that Yan Chi Yu would vie for dominion over the realm, then end her life with a cup of poisoned wine.
Throughout it all, only her bodyguard, Jiang Xu Zhi, remained steadfastly by her side, risking his life to plan for her sake.
Her former friend, Lou Yuan Ye, killed her elder brother, Shen Mu Xun, under the pretext that he was a rebel. The Shen family fell into ruin.
In the end, she tried to seek refuge with the man who had once been her fiancé, only for him to offer her to the new ruler of the barbarians.
Unable to endure the humiliation, she took her own life!
When she wakes from the dream, she sees another version of herself from a different timeline!
It doesn’t matter. Everything in the dream has taught her that the only way to protect those she loves and respects is to keep power firmly in her own hands.
