The Fortune Teller Turns Out to Have the Fate of an Empress

Shen Qingwu, an illegitimate daughter of the Marquis’s household, is mistreated by her stepmother from childhood. One day, while having her fortune told on the street, she meets the mysterious young man Pei Jiuyuan. His words, “The phoenix nests in the parasol tree,” cause a stir in the capital, but Shen Qingwu dismisses him as a charlatan. A misunderstanding sets them at odds, though Pei Jiuyuan has seen that something is unusual about her destiny and secretly helps her time and again under the name “Star Lord of Purity.” During a coup at court, Shen Qingwu is drawn into a conspiracy over the succession while trying to save her older brother. Pei Jiuyuan enters the Marquis’s household disguised as a fortune-teller and takes a position as a tutor. As they expose a spy and put down a border rebellion, the two gradually grow closer