On the first day Lin Jianwei entered the Prince of Jingnan’s mansion in place of her elder sister, an arrow landed in front of her wedding sedan.
The woman holding the bow was Pei Zhaoshuang, the unhinged princess whom no one in the capital dared provoke.
Everyone said the Lin family’s concubine-born daughter was worthless, and that marrying into the prince’s mansion was already above her station.
But no one knew she was no helpless pushover.
Poison hidden in the bridal chamber, a sick heir secretly drugged for years, and the long-unsolved case of the Grand Princess’s sudden death thirteen years ago: all were tied to both the prince’s mansion and the Lin family.
One was a concubine-born daughter forced into a substitute marriage, skilled at enduring and even better at scheming.
The other was a mad princess feared throughout the capital, quicker with a blade than with words.
They went from testing each other to joining forces and setting a trap.
Since the prince’s mansion, the Lin family, and the former court’s ministers all wanted them dead,
they would overturn this whole rotten game, table and all.
