The male lead is a chaste, innocent beauty with an exceptionally strong possessive streak. The female lead is easygoing, proud, and clever.
A strong female lead, a strong female lead, a strong female lead.
After her father is killed in battle and her elder brother is gravely wounded, Han Jihe takes her father's place on the battlefield.
But after winning the war, an imperial edict summons her back to the capital, where she becomes a caged beast.
The Nine Provinces lie in ruins, and relatives of the imperial family meddle in government. This vast dynasty is already riddled with holes.
The emperor is unkind, the court is rife with undercurrents, and every faction is poised to make a move.
On her first trip to the capital, Han Jihe has barely stepped outside when she sees a face as beautiful as an immortal's. That alone would be one thing, but the more she looks, the more familiar it seems. He looks just like a little Taoist priest she once knew as a youth, who left without saying goodbye.
Only now, it seems the little priest has given up Taoism and become an official.
Han Jihe boldly walks right up to him. “Hey, long time no see.”
As the abbot's personal disciple at a Taoist temple, Ye Qingchen thought he would spend his whole life there. Then, at sixteen, he went down the mountain, met certain people, and learned certain truths.
After leaving the temple, he took the civil service exams and steadily climbed the ranks.
He thought he had fallen into an abyss of hatred, with no light in sight, until he saw again the girl he could never forget.
