[One-on-one romance, the male lead’s long road to winning her back, rebirth, palace intrigue and nobility, intense push and pull]
[Reborn beauty blogger as an illegitimate daughter vs. aloof regent]
Su Yao, a twenty-first-century beauty blogger, opens her eyes to find herself an illegitimate daughter who’s constantly pushed around. Seeing the regent, Pei Che, standing in the snow in his black robes, cold and chaste, she makes up her mind on the spot: “I’m going to pluck this untouchable flower bald!”
She brings him medicine, deliberately pressing against his arm and pretending to be weak. She blocks the gates of his mansion, holding up a rouge and challenging him: “Your Highness, can you pull off this deathly Barbie pink?” At the palace banquet, she wears a cropped dance dress and sways her hips. Pei Che can’t take his eyes off her, while the entire court falls silent, as if the comments are rolling by. She even pretends to sprain her ankle, slips into his arms, and feels his abs, leaving Pei Che’s hands burning red. He says, “Get lost,” while silently screaming, “Don’t stop.” On his birthday, she lifts the hem of her red dress, and Pei Che loses control. They spend the night together.
The next day, Su Yao leaves a note saying, “I won’t be a concubine. Let’s part ways,” and slips away. Pei Che gets heart palpitations whenever he sees rouge, blushes when he touches his waist, and flies into a jealous rage when he hears she has opened a beauty shop in Jiangnan and has a “bookkeeper.” He drops everything and goes after her.
He tries making cakes, smearing cream all over his face, and takes a knife for her to beg her to take him back. But her legitimate elder sister and the Empress Dowager have already set their poisonous schemes in motion. A crisis is loading: can the beauty blogger and the regent get their happy ending...?
