Yan Shishi was a beautiful, charming, delicate woman who cried easily, but fate played a cruel joke on her. Her adoptive father sold her to a farmer as a bride to pay off his gambling debts. On their wedding night, her husband was so overcome by her beauty that he died of excitement, leaving her a widow. Her grieving mother-in-law couldn't accept what had happened and sold the new bride to the Crown Prince's residence as a maid.
Song Muchen, the current Crown Prince, felt emotions less deeply than most people. Hidden in the depths of his heart was a secret no one knew. His life had been orderly, until a maid named Yan Shishi appeared. Her smile and every little thing she did seemed to tempt everyone around her, including him. Song Muchen was torn. He wanted to push her far away, yet couldn't stand seeing her smile at anyone else.
He always took everything in stride, until he met her... and grew more and more violent!
She, meanwhile, was petty. Every time the Crown Prince punished her, she wrote it down in her little notebook. Song Muchen was ruthless, mercilessly dealing with any man who came near Yan Shishi. It wasn't until one day that he realized his heart had fallen for her from the very first moment he saw her.
