Peering Through the Golden Cage at Snow

[A Bewitching Beauty Upends Fate, and a Lord Above the Clouds Bows to Her]

|The Powerful Lower Themselves|Madly Begging for Love|The Aloof Flower Falls from Its Pedestal|

The Wei, Jin, and Northern and Southern Dynasties: a turbulent era ruled by powerful clans.

The imperial family had been reduced to mere puppets of the aristocracy.

In a dynasty where one's birth determined everything,

Liu Ruxue was the illegitimate daughter of a fallen noble family.

Yet she had auburn hair and golden eyes, and a beauty as exquisite as jade.

Her portrait was celebrated throughout the land.

Even the renowned physiognomist Huang Gong declared,

“The Hedong Liu family has a daughter whose beauty is unmatched in all the world.”

But for all her breathtaking beauty, she lacked a noble birth.

Was she destined to become a plaything?

Her greedy father and brothers planned to offer her to the widely revered scholar of the Langya Wang clan.

They even locked her in a golden cage and sent her off like a pet bird!

People sneered, “A bird in a golden cage will end up nothing more than Young Master Wang's plaything!”

Little did they know that beneath her delicate beauty, she was anything but helpless.

When her father and brothers wanted to gouge out her eyes and break her legs, turning her into a living corpse to curry favor and make themselves seem more distinguished,

that night, fire reflected in her golden eyes as she tore their entire plot to shreds.

The Langya Wang clan stood at the head of the four great families, its power and prestige exceeding even the imperial house.

Wang Yan was the future head of the Langya Wang family.

Handsome as an immortal, he seemed gentle and refined, with the bearing of a nobleman, but was in truth utterly cold.

Lately, however, Wang Zan, a trusted aide of Wang Yan's, had often been puzzled.

His usually rational and composed young lord...

kept doing strange things for Young Lady Liu.