Content warning: The female lead has had previous partners, while the male lead has not!
Xie Qingwu is the most unwanted princess in the palace. Hoping to live a better life, she sets her sights on her stepbrother.
But she never expects to be caught in the act on her very first attempt to climb into his bed, by Gu Shizi, who has just arrived from afar.
The man seems to hate her to the core and is always fierce with her. Xie Qingwu finds it very troubling.
She once asked him, “We have no quarrel. Why do you treat me this way?”
Gu Sui looks down at her and asks in return, “No quarrel?”
At the time, Xie Qingwu doesn’t know that Gu Sui has lived through this life once before.
And in his previous life, she killed his entire family.
Clearly, things don’t go much better for them this time around.
Xie Qingwu makes him fall for her, then kicks him aside.
She gets what she wants and successfully climbs into bed with her stepbrother, while Gu Sui is convicted of a crime and sent far away to Nandu. They are separated by thousands of miles.
Three years later, they meet again when Xie Qingwu is at her lowest.
On the dragon bed, her clothes are in disarray, and tears stream down her face.
She doesn’t know why he has come or whether he will help her. All she can do is stare at him helplessly.
The man lowers his eyes for a moment, then speaks softly, as if he has made up his mind. “Come with me.”
The male lead’s perspective:
He lives a second life hoping to change the fate of his family, who were all killed. He travels to Chang’an, where he comes face-to-face with the wicked woman who destroyed his family in his previous life.
The woman before him is fragile, pitiful, and innocent, nothing like the arrogant, domineering woman she was before…
Which version of her is the real one?
Gu Sui once despised Xie Qingwu, and once hated her to the core. He has seen her at her worst, yet still falls in love with her.
