A beautiful, unhinged poisoner vs. a powerful scoundrel in high office
Jiang Qing was the pampered legitimate daughter of an easygoing family, but her entire household was destroyed by someone’s schemes.
Her son had his heart ripped out and was offered as a living sacrifice by his scoundrel of a father.
Her father was implicated in the Moonlit Terrace case and executed.
Her mother died by suicide out of grief.
Her younger brother Jiang Zhao was caught up in it all and exiled to Lingnan.
She set fire to the Qiao family’s traces of her existence, burning them all away, and left her scoundrel’s beloved concubine with burn scars.
Thus began her game of fleeing, learning, fleeing again, and striking back.
A wanted woman on the brink of death vs. a charming young official from the Ministry of Justice
She runs.
He chases.
So she marries him and becomes the woman in his bed.
