Zhou Yanning returned from studying abroad, hoping to help her family’s bank gain a foothold in a time of chaos. Instead, a warlord forced her family to hand over all their funds to pay his troops. Under the crushing pressure, the Zhou family’s assets were stripped away to cover their debts, and Zhou Yanning’s parents were brutally killed by the warlord when they tried to demand justice.
With her family destroyed and her parents dead, Zhou Yanning was sold into a house of pleasure. Convinced that the all-powerful military governor was the one to blame, she swore revenge. Using her wits to get close to him, she was taken as his third concubine, allowing her to lie in wait beside her enemy.
Within the walls of the governor’s mansion, Zhou Yanning pretended to obey while secretly laying her plans for revenge. Yet as she maneuvered around the governor, she gradually glimpsed the complexity and helplessness beneath his cold mask. Hatred and an inexplicable affection pulled her in opposite directions again and again, making her path to vengeance ever more uncertain as love and hate became intertwined.
