[A scheming, frail prince’s possessive love + a beast-taming county lady matching wits with him + romantic rivals vying for her + court politics + household and palace intrigue]
A bickering couple who chase and flee, scheme against and sabotage each other, and simply refuse to lose, even by an inch.
To repay a debt for saving its life, a black deer is reborn as a human and becomes the daughter of a marquis. Her parents abuse her and leave her in the wilderness for fifteen years. Then an imperial decree makes her a county lady. She thinks she can spend her life carefully protecting her benefactor, the crown prince, but instead she gets tangled up with Zhao Yunting, the scheming Second Prince.
He forces her to become his pawn, using her beauty to frame the crown prince as a contender for the throne. But he doesn’t realize that, though she is in Cao Cao’s camp, her heart is with the Han. Time and again, she ruins his plans, yet he can never bring himself to kill her. In the end, when he discovers her true feelings, he explodes in fury. He kills the crown prince and schemes to seize the throne, using every means at his disposal to force her back to him. He kisses her fiercely and says, “Hate me if you must. Just stay by my side.”
