[Palace intrigue and political scheming + marriage before love + pursuing ambitions + both leads are non-virgins + ensemble cast]
Su Wanwan, the chancellor’s illegitimate daughter, has never been favored. Still, she is beautiful, kindhearted, and handy. At the chancellor’s birthday banquet, the young general Lin Wei falls in love with her at first sight.
After an unexpected turn of events, she has no choice but to marry into the general’s household as a concubine for the sake of her family. To do so, she cuts ties with her first love and parts ways with the capital’s talented young scholar Xu Ruchen. But waiting for her there is the clever and gracious first wife, Commandery Princess Li Xiangan.
With a letter of divorce in hand, she tries to flee the capital, a place rife with trouble. Though the mountains and rivers stretch far and wide, fate keeps bringing the two together.
Su Wanwan looks up at Lin Wei and asks, “I don’t know when it happened, but I’ve fallen in love with you, General. What about you?”
Lin Wei answers calmly, “From the moment I first saw you.”
It began when my heart turned toward the moon.
Love, ideals, the road ahead, and freedom.
On her path from illegitimate daughter to regent, she endures countless hardships, yet fulfills the dream in her heart.
In the end, the moon rests in my heart.
