Lan Qiushui, the capital’s most talented woman and the only daughter of the Lan family, the foremost imperial merchants. Brilliant and breathtakingly beautiful, she meets someone by chance. Is it a doomed entanglement or a fated romance?
Discontented with the marriage her father arranged for her, she angrily leaves home. Though a woman, she vows to take over the family business. But fate has other plans: her father is murdered, and the sworn brother she saved turns out to be his killer?
How can a delicate young woman shoulder such a heavy burden and manage such a vast family business alone? Yet she has no idea that her origins conceal another secret: she is a princess raised among the people, a lost pearl of the royal family.
Her father’s killer is finally brought to justice. But when love arrives unexpectedly, should she accept it or reject it? Can the ache and knot in her heart finally be undone?
