This story is set in an imaginary dynasty. If it resembles anything, please consider yourself warned.
Rong Jinli was cherished as a child. Her mother, Consort Chen, and the emperor were deeply in love, and she was close friends with the empress. Jinli was exceptionally clever from an early age.
But when Jinli was ten, her mother became pregnant. She thought she would have a little brother or sister, but her mother died of blood loss after a difficult labor. The baby boy was stillborn. Remembering that Jinli had lost her mother so young, the emperor entrusted her to the empress’s care.
Life seemed destined to remain peaceful, until an assassination in the marketplace shattered that calm, along with the arrival of Gu Qinian.
Their fates are intertwined in countless ways.
A princess meets a spirited young general. What sparks will fly between them? As the struggle for power unfolds, will they go with the flow or fight for their future...?
