In her previous life, she was the last remnant of a fallen dynasty, consumed by flames. In this life, she is the puppet legitimate daughter of the Marquis of Zhenbei's household, someone everyone can bully. Xiao Jinfeng touches her poisoned, voiceless throat and sneers. So the sixteen years of fatherly love and filial devotion were nothing but a shocking ruse by her adoptive father to get his hands on military blueprints.
When Regent Prince Xie Linyuan presses his black-iron sword to her throat, a storm rises in both their eyes. He remembers those eyes: they belonged to the princess of the fallen nation who ended his life with poisoned wine three years ago, within the imperial palace's ninefold walls. And she will never forget that it was this very man who crushed her kingdom to dust in her previous life!
