Sweet romance + devoted couple + one love for a lifetime
Shen Qingci, the legitimate daughter of the Shen family, lost her mother at a young age. With a spiteful stepmother and a vicious younger sister, she lived worse than a maid. She thought she would waste away and die in the family’s inner courtyard, until the day a spooked horse brought her crashing into a pair of deep, icy eyes.
He was Prince Rui, Xiao Yu, a powerful figure who held sway over the court: aloof, restrained, and unpredictable. He helped her out of trouble once, secretly protected her twice, and swooped in to save her with overwhelming force a third time... He always appeared when she was at her most wretched, like a light in the dark.
Everyone said Shen Qingci was lucky to have caught Prince Rui’s eye. None of them knew that behind every “coincidence” lay a deeper scheme. An old case revealed secrets within the palace, while a bowl of deadly poison uncovered the truth behind her kind mother’s wrongful death.
Shen Qingci cast off her weakness and revealed her sharp edge. A fight for power in the household? She planned every step and fought back to the end! Palace intrigue? She used her enemies’ strength against them and stirred up a storm! She would not only survive in this deadly household, but also climb to the highest seat, stepping over her enemies’ corpses!
And that cold-faced prince, who claimed they were merely “getting what they each wanted,” lost control and fiercely defended her whenever she was in danger, laying the finest things in the world at her feet. He said, “Who dares lay a hand on my woman?”
