Shen Wanwan only learned just before her wedding that she was to marry Lu Yi, the most distinguished young master from a powerful family in the capital.
Though his status was prestigious, rumors said Lu Yi had killed countless people and had no tenderness for women. Besides, this was a marriage her cousin had rejected and dumped on her.
Her clan had already set its sights on the orphaned Shen heiress's fortune. The clan head and his daughter made no attempt to hide their intention to claim the entire Shen family fortune for themselves.
Unwilling to marry Lu Yi to bring him good luck, unwilling to let her relatives seize her inheritance, and hoping to avoid seeing the prince's ugly face and impotence, she resolutely fled the wedding.
Unexpectedly, the place she fled to for her own safety turned out to be the renowned Prince Ding of Pingxi's residence.
After misunderstandings and making up, the two finally came to choose each other.
She also learned why the prince had killed so many people: one wrongful case had led to the deaths of tens of thousands of people across an entire county.
After officials impeached him at court, he was demoted even after returning victorious from battle.
But she remembered saving a young man who had collapsed in the snow long ago.
Dressed all in white, his face pale but his features still striking, he had been as gentle as jade.
From then on, the young man kept the sachet in his possession as a cherished memento and never again sought the company of women.
“So, do you know who I am now?” Her eyes reflected his image.
The prince took out the sachet and, beneath the lamplight, kissed her deeply. In the years to come, he would show her just how much he loved her.
He asked, “Didn't you already know a few days ago whether I was impotent?”
