Su Yun Zhao transmigrates into the body of the least-favored legitimate daughter of the Marquis of Anjing in the Great Yin Dynasty.
Her birth mother is dead, her father’s concubine makes her life difficult, and her half-sister frames her. She wants to keep her head down and stay alive, but is forced to use her modern forensic knowledge to turn the tables again and again in the household’s power struggles.
Then she discovers that her mother’s death was no accident, but the opening act in a conspiracy deep within the palace...
Meanwhile, Xie Ming Zhen, the Chancellor’s legitimate daughter, returns reborn.
In her previous life, she gave her heart to the wrong person and watched her family perish. Now, with her memories intact, she swears to put the Noble Consort’s son on the throne and make everyone who wronged her pay in blood.
At a palace banquet, the two women meet for the first time.
One wields modern knowledge and calmly untangles every crisis; the other relies on memories of her previous life to plan each step.
Amid the palace and the inner household, political intrigue and tangled passions set them on wildly different paths in a battle of wits that spans two lifetimes.
And he, the gentle and refined Prince Rui, offers her a hand when she is at her lowest:
“Miss Su, shall we work together and each get what we want?”
She smiles. “Aren’t you afraid my lowly status will make me a liability, Your Highness?”
His gaze deepens. “It was never your status that caught my eye.”
So pretty!