Where Bamboo Embers Gather Fragrance

Deep in the bamboo forest, she is Jian Ning, a princess of a fallen kingdom burdened by the blood feud of her nation, living in seclusion. He is Xiao Chengyan, crown prince of An Kingdom, using the alias Xiao Yan. He came to track down remnants of the enemy kingdom, but day after day in her company, he falls for her.

The conqueror’s enemy and the former dynasty’s princess should be sworn foes, yet love takes root in a corner of the bamboo forest. When their identities are exposed, love and hatred tear them apart. He returns to the palace and plunges into the struggle for the throne, while she is forced into the royal power struggle. Xie Yan guards her devotedly, Liu Yuan plots with ruthless cunning, and Xiao Chengjue watches like a tiger poised to pounce. Meanwhile, the exiled crown prince Jian Heng and third princess Xiao Chenglan are caught in their own tangled love and hatred...

When the truth comes to light, they discover that another hand was behind the kingdom’s fall. She uses love as bait and her life as a blade, launching her final counterattack on her wedding day. He may possess the whole world, but all he has left is the empty silence of the bamboo forest, and her phantom haunting the rest of his life.