After her parents and elder brother are killed on the battlefield, a sudden upheaval turns Qin Si from a noble young lady of the capital into an orphan. Fortunately, the emperor takes pity on her, orders her to enter the palace and be educated at the Imperial College, and promises she may choose any young man in the capital to marry. But on her second day in the palace, she runs into the notoriously volatile Second Prince and accidentally injures him. She assumes they have become enemies, never imagining he will become the brother closest to her.
Qin Si expects that once she comes of age, she can find a good husband and marry. But every time she goes to meet a potential match, he shows up to sabotage things. Furious, she confronts him with tears in her eyes, only to hear him say, “You want to get married? Don’t even think about it!”
It is only when Zhao Jinye sees Qin Si with the newly crowned top scholar that he realizes jealousy is driving him mad. He corners her in the dead of night and pleads, “A Si, don’t marry him. I’m better than he is.”
A fake slice-of-life romance with a slow pace
