[Non-traditional time travel + Machiavellian strategy + Yandere + Sadistic love + Redemption + Historical fiction]
Once the modern soul woke up, it turned out to be the notorious and violent eldest princess Zhao Qingcheng. Facing the abyss of power and moral shackles left by the original owner, she is walking on thin ice: maintaining her personality is necessary for survival, but using modern knowledge will accelerate the devouring of the original owner's consciousness. What's even more deadly is that the "golden cage" she built with her own hands locks Wen Su, the number one scholar in Qingliu - a man who should hate her to the core, but is entangled with her in a twisted symbiosis. The blood and tears of the Bianhe River, the shady secrets of the imperial examination, the ambition of the feudal town, and the corruption of power at all levels are like a giant network. In the morbid love of use and possession, dependence and revenge, Zhao Qingcheng struggles with the tear between modern conscience and the addiction to original sovereignty. When their attempts at change are counterattacked by the feudal system, and when the dry lotus pond reflects the corruption at the core of power, they must make a choice in the fire that burns the old order: sink into a new monster, or exchange for a desperate redemption at the cost of self-destruction? This is a battle between trapped beasts in which time-travelers cannot crush history, an apocalyptic tragedy in which power and love eat each other.
