The Way Home Through the Fog, Love Turns to Ash

In the grand residence of the Lu clan, a powerful family of merchants, the eldest son Chen Zhou hides his sharp edge beneath the guise of a wastrel. After his birth mother dies, he lives with his stepmother’s young son and Wu Gui, a girl raised by the family. He secretly plots to expose his father’s hypocrisy, while she uses obedient sweetness as armor in the family’s marriage-alliance schemes. In a predatory household, they become mirrors to one another: an alliance forged through shared secrets gradually turns into a dangerous bond of two souls intertwined.

He pulls strings and exposes the dark underbelly of capital, while she conceals a blade beneath her gentleness as she navigates her stepmother’s schemes. Behind their tacit understanding lies a struggle between love and ambition. With the pinnacle of power within reach, they are ultimately reduced to ashes by their family’s fate and the caprices of destiny, becoming a tragic requiem.