A proud, fallen noblewoman x a cold, ruthless prince / he / a married couple of master actors putting on a show together
In the first year of the Jinde era, Prince Yuping raised an army in rebellion, and the 300,000 troops of the Song family marched straight toward Lidu, the capital of the Great Jin.
The young emperor vanished without a trace, his fate unknown. Yuan Shurong, the woman chosen to be empress, became the scapegoat and was tortured for three days in the Qin Terrace prison.
A phoenix with fallen feathers is worth less than a chicken. Shurong was even less fortunate: she was made a servant to the third son of the Song family.
The people of Lidu said that all three sons of Prince Yuping were remarkable. The eldest was loyal, filial, brave, and resolute; the second was outstanding in both looks and character. As for the youngest... he was ugly and sickly, and suffered from an unspeakable ailment.
Shurong had no choice. She had to survive! But who could have known that entering his household would be the beginning of a life-threatening ordeal?
Yet no one expected that before long, Shurong would once again become the woman chosen to be empress.
“Does Your Highness ever regret not killing me back then?” She tightened the sash around his neck and breathed against his ear.
At that moment, Song Ke was trapped in a desperate predicament. He gasped for breath, still smiling even with death close at hand. “How could I? You are my imperial sister-in-law.”
This is a story of love and hate, where settling one problem only makes another rise in its place.
