Two lifetimes of injustice, a heart consumed by flames. Shen Ningwan, daughter of the Defender General, drank poisoned wine in the Cold Palace and died with hatred in her heart, only to be reborn on the eve of her coming-of-age ceremony. Her family was still whole, and the conspiracies had yet to surface. Clenching her fists, she vowed to protect her blood relatives, tear away the hypocritical masks from her past life, and make every enemy pay in blood.
Yet the wheels of fate had already veered off course. Reborn alongside her was Su Lingwei, the "best friend" who had betrayed her in her previous life. Returning with the same memories, this woman pressed her at every turn, trying to recreate her life and take everything from her, determined to prove that she alone deserved to stand at the pinnacle of power.
Even more unsettling to Shen Ningwan was the sudden appearance in the capital of Prince Jing, Xie Yunci, a man whose behavior was bizarre. He called himself an idle prince, yet spoke in strange and outrageous ways. He could solve plagues with unthinkable methods, see through deadly schemes, and even seemed to know things about the "future." No one knew that the body he inhabited held a soul from another world, carrying a fragmentary novel that recorded "Shen Ningwan's tragedy."
When a reborn woman's obsession collides with a transmigrator's "foresight," when the blade of revenge meets a venomous serpent in disguise, and when even the cold Seventh Prince, Xiao Jue, begins to suspect something is amiss...
Shen Ningwan discovers that the truth of her previous life is far more twisted than she remembers, that an even deeper exploitation lies behind Su Lingwei's betrayal, and that Xie Yunci's arrival may be either the chance to break the cycle or the variable that drags everyone into an even deeper vortex.
Three fates intertwine, and the love and hatred of two lifetimes become entangled. They maneuver step by step through a game of power, struggling to choose at the edge of love and hate, while the onlooker from another world will eventually enter the game and take up the pieces.
