A modern history graduate student transmigrates into the body of a lowborn daughter in a third-rank official’s household, where everyone thinks they can bully her!
The moment Ruan Keqing opens her eyes, her legitimate sister pushes her into a pond.
She thinks she’s merely fallen into the endless schemes of the inner household, only to uncover the secret of the Crown Prince’s double!
The frail, sickly Crown Prince Xiao Ziwen is hiding a blood-contract gu poison that will soon kill him. The ambitious Second Prince Xiao Ziyan will stop at nothing to claim the throne.
Situ Zhengde, heir to the Duke Who Guards the Nation, seems like a wastrel, but he has fallen deeply in love with her because she saved his life as a child.
Song Jiali, the enemy kingdom’s prime minister, appears gentle and refined, but secretly controls puppets and plots to overthrow the realm.
Four men of very different backgrounds become entangled with her in a whirlpool of political intrigue.
When the Western Jue Kingdom launches a surprise attack under the pretext of a marriage alliance, the secret of the blood-contract gu is on the verge of being exposed, and her identity as a double is made public, how will Ruan Keqing use her modern knowledge to turn the tide?
Will she face life and death alongside the sickly Crown Prince, or accept the enemy prime minister’s deadly tenderness?
Political schemes intertwine, love and hatred blur. Watch her stir up a storm in the treacherous imperial court!
