[Cold, scheming, sharp-tongued man vs. sunny girl with astonishingly thick skin]
[Heroine transmigrates + disguises herself as a man to become an official + caught up in a succession struggle + nonconsensual elements + runs away while pregnant + groveling pursuit + both virgins + happy ending]
The Great Yong court is in turmoil. The Emperor is obsessed with cultivating the Dao, the Crown Prince is bedridden with a chronic illness, and the princes scheme against one another. The situation is treacherous, and one wrong move could mean total ruin.
Su Qing drafts policies, purges corrupt officials, controls floods, and outwits envoys from the Xiliang Kingdom. Before she knows it, she has become one of Great Yong’s most trusted ministers.
She remains unmoved by the princes’ attempts to win her favor and refuses to take sides in the struggle for the throne. All she wants is to do something worthwhile for the people.
Until one day, her sharp-tongued superior, her corrupt rival, and even her aloof shadow guard…
Tsk, why are all of them looking at her so strangely?
The thing Qi Yanbai regrets most in his life is failing to take Su Qing with him when he was sent to fight the Japanese pirates in the thirty-ninth year of Zhaojing.
By the time he returned victorious, the woman he had silently protected had already fallen in love with someone else.
He was going to lose his mind!
Day after day, he watched Su Qing and Fu Hanchuan fall in love, consumed by envy, jealousy, resentment, and agitation as all sorts of dark thoughts ran wild through his mind.
Later, for certain reasons, Su Qing and Fu Hanchuan parted ways.
He stood outside her chambers all night, only to hear one sentence the next morning: she had closed her heart to love.
To hell with closing your heart to love! This time, you’re mine, even if I have to take you by force!
