“She was the forbidden desire he had dared not confess for ten years, and the one moon he wanted to reclaim most when his wedding banquet was stained with blood.”
✨ [Heroine] Shen Zhao (Consort Huizhao)
A brilliant, beautiful daughter of a merchant family, skilled in strategy and versed in medicine and poisons.
On the surface, she is the spoiled, willful legitimate daughter of the Shen family. In secret, she is investigating evidence of her father and Prince Ning’s treason.
“The man I marry must be willing to kneel and do up my hair. I will not kneel to serve him tea.”
⚔️ [Hero] Xie Wuchen
The last survivor of the Xie family, restrained yet dangerously obsessive. He appears to be the Shen family’s cold-faced guard, but has spent ten years in hiding to uncover the truth behind his family’s massacre.
His right wrist is dislocated, an old injury sustained while saving her. His sword has no tassel, because he once cut one off to bind her wound.
“I can catch you every time you fall, but I can’t bear to see you in your wedding robes on your wedding day.”
[High-Stakes Plot]
The faked-death plot: On their wedding day, Prince Ning poisons the bride. Xie Wuchen slaughters the wedding guests, unaware that she has taken a drug that makes her appear dead.
Reunion on a snowy night: Gripping his bloodstained fingers from inside her coffin, she says, “Xie Wuchen, you look awful when you cry.”
A joint revenge: She weaves a web through trade routes while he wields his sword, and together they expose Prince Ning’s conspiracy with a foreign enemy.
[Memorable Moments Ahead]
Every night, he leaves a plum blossom by her window, unaware that she has already hidden dried petals inside the lining of her wedding dress.
She discovers that the secret compartment in his study is filled with the scrap paper covered in calculations she threw away over the years
