When Chu Jingmeng was six, she witnessed her parents' deaths with her own eyes.
The pampered, noble Crown Princess fell from the heights in a single day, sinking into the dust and becoming a slave at the mercy of an enemy nation. To survive and take revenge, she played along, schemed carefully, and planned each step, using herself as bait to gain power and get close to the culprit who had destroyed her family.
An unexpected visitor joined her thorny path to revenge.
Xiao Ye was born noble, brilliant and graceful, yet his frail health left him confined to the marquis's estate by his father and brothers.
The first time he went to the palace as a boy, he rescued Chu Jingmeng from being bullied. Her battered body still held a stubborn, restrained resolve, stirring a tempest in his otherwise still heart.
Later, when the entire household of the marquis was exiled, she imprisoned him in a separate residence, forbidding him to leave and keeping him safe.
As storms gathered and war broke out, he stood by her through countless trials of life and death, bowing to her and serving her willingly.
