A pure-love story with one main plot and several side stories, featuring multiple couples. It blends martial arts, palace intrigue, and devotion to family and country with love, family bonds, and friendship. There are no conventional transmigrate-and-be-reborn tropes, only heartfelt true love. The hero and heroine grow together, with a little angst to sweeten the romance, and a happy ending.
Li Lingxu, the eldest grandson of the Southern Chen emperor, was reckless and unruly in his youth. To rid himself of a love poison, he grabbed a maid at random to help him cure it, setting off a tangled romance of love and resentment with the heroine. Only later did he discover that this was no “random” encounter: a shocking conspiracy awaited them. After countless dangers, the hero and heroine finally found their happiness, only for… Meanwhile, a beggar-turned-guard and a commandery princess struggle against the barriers of their identities; a runaway aristocratic family’s covert guard and a general’s daughter, bound in a political marriage, find love through fate; and a young master who has a one-sided love for the heroine enters a marriage first and falls in love afterward with his innocent, bold young wife. The story brings unrequited love, devotion unto death, tender passion, and romance between men and women vividly to life! It follows one principle of love throughout: you may consummate the marriage first, but you must marry her, and you may have many children, but only with one woman.
