She was the Prime Minister’s illegitimate daughter, a pitiful little thing from the day she was born. She grew up homeless on the streets, never with enough to eat or warm clothes to wear.
He was a revered Prince of War who had guarded the frontier for years. On the eve of his wedding, he returned to the capital with his victorious army, only for rumors to spread that he had died on the battlefield.
The Prime Minister’s legitimate daughter, Su Jinyun, was supposed to marry into the prince’s household. Madam Su couldn’t bear to send her own daughter there to spend the rest of her life as a widow, but feared that defying the imperial decree would bring trouble to the family. So she tracked down the Prime Minister’s daughter who had been abandoned outside the household.
On the wedding day, the Prime Minister and his wife plotted to have her buried with the supposedly dead prince. She escaped from the estate. Meanwhile, on his way back to the capital from the frontier, he was ambushed by the Southern Border assassins of the Rakshasa Sect and seriously wounded.
By chance, they both hid in the same alley. She saved him, though she had no idea who he was. When he returned, she became his true princess consort.
Every day, she found new ways to win his favor. All she wanted was a home in the prince’s household, with food on the table, a bed to sleep in, and money to spend.
He suspected she was a spy sent by the Prime Minister’s household. He tested her again and again, and his repeated suspicions eventually broke her heart.
At some point, the ice-cold prince suddenly realized that his heart was already filled with her, and that he could no longer live without her. So he set out to win his wife back.
In the end, he gave up his princely title, and she stole away half a lifetime of leisure with him.
