Just as her grandmother had died of illness, her mother was giving birth, and the whole family was destitute, word arrived that her father had passed the highest imperial exam.
Both mother and daughter thought their hardships were finally over. Instead, the news brought her father’s letter of divorce, citing his lack of a son, even though her mother was holding their newborn baby boy in her arms.
The mother and daughter set out for the capital to seek answers, but her mother died on the road protecting her children.
Ten years of plotting, all to walk the path her mother never got to finish, stand before that man, demand justice for her mother’s death, and take revenge on those who killed her.
But on the road to revenge, she unexpectedly saves Chen Wang, the ninth imperial uncle. As they spend time together, she discovers that he, too, carries a heavy past. Beneath his seemingly glorious status as a prince lie an unknown resilience and pain.
The threads of fate had begun to entwine the moment they met. Two people who had both been walking through darkness found a faint glimmer of light and comfort in each other.
