Shen Qingci is a disgraced empress reborn. In her previous life, her entire family was framed and executed, while she drank poison in the cold palace. Reborn, she casts aside her finery and tears through a web of conspiracies with a blade's sharp edge, vowing to make every enemy pay in blood.
Xie Yunlan is the capital's notorious playboy, a regular in the pleasure quarters. He appears carefree and debauched, but in truth commands an intelligence network of spies and bears a bloody grudge over an old family case.
An unexpected collision beneath the Lantern Festival lights brings their paths of revenge crashing together.
She is aloof and proud, carefully investigating one murder after another, yet he always throws her off balance with his cheeky grin.
“Miss Shen, why does an ice beauty like you keep hanging around corpses?”
“Why not look at me instead? I may not have much, but you can have my life and my intelligence.”
He is sunny and shameless, seemingly taking nothing seriously, yet whenever she is in danger, he steps in to protect her. Even with an arrow in his back, he laughs and says, “Taking a blade for you? Worth it.”
Beneath her stepmother's mask of kindness lurks a serpent's venom. A lovesick prince's devotion is nothing but a cage in disguise, and in the shadows of the imperial court, a hidden hand is pulling the strings.
When a disgraced empress meets a playboy, and revenge collides with affection, they test one another amid the capital's fog and save each other at death's door.
Stolen secret letters, reopened old cases, struggles for imperial power... Every step treads on a blade's edge, and every glance hides a fluttering heart.
She seeks to clear her family's name. He seeks to overturn the past. But fate has already decreed that they will stand side by side and fight their way through a bloody conspiracy to reach each other.
