She was sent as a “gift” to seal peace after her country’s defeat, but on their wedding night, she slipped her husband a sleeping draught.
Wei Mingli, princess of Wei, was born under the prophecy that her destined phoenix fate would bring ruin to her country. To save her homeland, she willingly married the enemy's disgraced prince, a pawn everyone had written off.
Everyone laughed at her for marrying a wastrel, unaware that her husband, who always seemed bleary-eyed with drink, was the master of the hidden underworld network.
When she tore away his disguise in a secret chamber, he pointed his sword at her throat. “Cooperate, or die.”
She seized his lifeline in turn. “I want you to gamble on this empire with me.”
Two powerful leads exposing each other's secret identities × excruciating romantic tension × mutual salvation
From enemies to lovers, from pieces on a board to the ones moving them: amid the chaos of war, they pledge the land itself and play a game of imperial ambition that will echo for ages.
