[In the imperial court, the tides of power shift unpredictably; amid political schemes, affection blooms in secret.]
Jiang Huai, the iron-fisted chancellor, could turn the clouds with one hand and bring rain with the other. His heart was as cold as iron, and he considered love and romance worthless. He stood at the pinnacle of Dayin’s power, with piles of bones beneath his feet and a vast empire in his sights. He believed in strength and calculation, never in anything so fanciful as “destiny.”
Ling Yue, a brilliant and resolute jewel of a noble family, had a gift for reading people. Living at the edge of the power struggle, all she wanted was to protect her family’s peace. But at a palace banquet that seemed like a chance encounter, she collided with the deep, unfathomable gaze of a man who held the world in his hands. Beneath the moonlit corridors and brilliant stars, the clear light in her eyes unexpectedly pierced the years of frozen desolation in his heart.
Without realizing it, he began using his iron grip on power to make the skies clear for her alone. In court, he was Chancellor Jiang, a man whose name struck terror into all who heard it. Within his manor, he was an ordinary husband who feared her frown and willingly “kept quiet.” Was he henpecked? No, Jiang Huai called it “respect.”
She had thought herself trapped in a cage, only to discover that this coldhearted minister was a “wolf” who kept her beneath his wing and couldn’t bear anyone else coveting her. Was he offering her merely gold, silver, and jewels? He even wanted to lay this splendid empire at her feet, just to win her smile.
Under the court’s turbulent currents:
The third prince Jing Ci lies in wait under the alias “Ci Yi,” concealing deadly ambition beneath his gentle, refined manner.
The second prince of Beidi, Li Xun, slips into the capital under the pretext of paying tribute, searching for the lost treasure “Ninefold Snow Lotus” and stirring up a storm.
All sides are watching hungrily. Conspiracies close in like a net, and every step is fraught with danger.
