Half the Lights Are Off

She is the second young lady of the Taifu family in Kyoto, and he is the eldest son of the imperial censor. When he was young, he had a so-called marriage contract because of the Queen Mother's drunken words of "God-given marriage." They had been together in the same college for eight years but did not know each other's true identities. When they were leaving, he asked her to wait for him, but she waited for another three years. On the day she returned to Beijing, her family was about to be exiled, and the Master Bai who read out the imperial edict was the one she had been waiting for for three years, and the "fiancé" she had always been afraid to meet. The imperial edict in his hand fell to the floor. He never expected that the second young lady of the Chi family who he insisted on breaking off the engagement with was the one he had been thinking about for three years. She stayed in Kyoto on her own terms in exchange for the Chi family's safe departure from the capital. Either advancing or retreating, they all entered someone else's chess game...