He schemed and plotted, laying traps for her time and again;
She treated him sincerely, undeterred by his repeated deceptions.
But she never expected him to break his promise to her once more.
The red carpet had been laid, and the position of Imperial Consort awaited her, but in an instant, it all came to nothing.
Beneath her reputation for being foolish lay an innocent heart. When she met him, she thought she had found a good man.
She believed him when he said they had fled the palace on their wedding night to wash dishes together before the crape myrtle flowers.
But after an assassination attempt on her visit home, he treated her coldly and accused her family of plotting treason, banishing her to the Cold Palace.
All the love and favor she had once enjoyed vanished in a single day, and her heart turned cold.
He appeared quietly in the Cold Palace, revealed the painstaking effort behind his actions, and begged her not to abandon him…
The male protagonist did all this for the female protagonist, which gave me the feeling that it had been planned for a long time. It was a bit sadistic in the beginning, but fortunately everything was made clear in the end.