The Earl Xu household has been steadily declining. It was only with years of support from the Mu family, the maternal grandparents of the twin sisters Xu Nian and Xu Yao, that the family managed to maintain its outward splendor.
After their mother died, their maternal grandmother feared the sisters would be mistreated by their stepmother, so she brought them to the Mu family, where they lived happily until they were fourteen.
That year, at the insistence of their great-grandmother, Lady Xu, the Xu family took the sisters back.
Barely a year after Xu Nian and Xu Yao returned to the household, Xu Yao was murdered through the joint schemes of Madam Wu and her daughter-in-law.
Afterward, the two women forced Xu Nian to marry a fool. With no other choice, Xu Nian jumped into the lotus pond where her sister had once drowned.
After Xu Nian died, Xu Yao’s soul encountered Xu Nian’s.
At that moment, Xu Yao was reborn as Xu Nian.
She returned to the moment just after Xu Yao had died.
In her previous life, Xu Yao had been strong-willed and quick to repay kindness or vengeance, but she died full of hatred after trusting the wrong people.
Now that she has returned, she takes on the guise of the frail and gentle Xu Nian, hiding her sharp edge beneath a soft gaze.
Beneath her delicate appearance lies a clever mind and a ruthless hand.
This time, she will make every demon and fiend taste the consequences of being trapped by their own schemes.
Their fate from a previous life was not yet fulfilled. After Xu Yao is reborn as Xu Nian, she marries Xie Chengjue, the son of the Eldest Princess.
Xie Chengjue has always loved Xu Yao. Believing his wife to be the younger sister of the woman he loves, he fails to give her the respect she deserves.
When he learns that the wife he neglected is Xu Yao, reborn, he is overjoyed and sets out to win her back.
Xu Nian later helps Xie Chengjue reclaim his rightful identity as the current emperor’s eldest legitimate son.
In this perilous struggle within the palace, their fates become inextricably bound amid clashing blades and political intrigue.
