Shen Luoxi, the legitimate daughter of the Shen family, has given her heart to her childhood sweetheart, Xie Yanchen. While saving the Third Prince, Xiao Jingheng, she falls off a cliff. Her family claims she was attacked, and she sleeps for three years.
When she wakes and returns to the capital, everything has changed.
Her sweet and obedient cousin, Chu Yuxin, takes credit for saving the prince. Her father is promoted, and Chu Yuxin also steals her parents' favor, her younger brother's protection, and even her fiancé, Xie Yanchen.
In the end, the tendons in her hands and feet are severed, and she is abandoned in a secret chamber. Helplessly, she watches rats gnaw at her flesh, dying with hatred as Chu Yuxin mocks her in her wedding dress.
Even after death, her soul lingers. She watches her family grow ever more prosperous because of her death, while Chu Yuxin marries Xie Yanchen and the whole household celebrates.
During three years as a lonely ghost, she sees all her enemies' secrets and their eventual fates. Hatred eats away at her to the bone.
Her spirit accidentally wanders into a hidden realm, where she takes a master and learns their arts!
Heaven takes pity on her, and she is reborn! This time, she will live for herself, freely and joyfully!
She uses schemes as her lure and a jade pendant as bait, wins the emperor's heart, and helps the Third Prince, Xiao Jingheng, claim the throne!
Her revenge is complete, but her love...
A single night of fire consumes Qionghua Hall. Shen Luoxi is no more!
Red-eyed, Xiao Jingheng dismisses his harem, yearning for the woman he has lost.
Three years later in Jiangnan, a two-year-old child clings to Xiao Jingheng's leg and babbles, “Daddy, Daddy...”
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