(Falsely sweet and calculating, willing to do anything vs. genuinely unhinged but pretending to be proper, hopelessly lovestruck)
One day, a horse was startled, and an accident changed everything.
Zuo Qingyue kept waking from dreams in which her younger half-sister, born to her stepmother, was the center of attention and beloved by the entire family.
Meanwhile, she herself was consumed by jealousy. First she tried to make her sister fall into the water, only to catch a chill herself and become unable to bear children.
Watching countless suitors gather around her sister, including the noble First Prince, who had secretly fallen for her, she plotted to ruin her sister's reputation.
But her scheme was exposed, and a strip of white silk brought her short life to an end...
Zuo Qingyue protested,
