From birth, Wei Qingyuan was branded an unwanted child and abandoned by the Wei family at its ancestral shrine in Liangcheng. A revered monk had foretold that her fate was ill-starred and that she must never marry, but devote her life to serving the family shrine. In the cold, lonely days that followed, she endured in silence and bided her time. “The prophecy of her ill-starred fate, the mystery surrounding her mother’s early death, and the riddle of her grandmother’s sudden passing are all waiting for her at the Wei residence in distant Lincheng.”
Her eighteenth birthday is approaching. She is supposed to shave her head, renounce the world, and become a living sacrifice at the ancestral shrine. Just as she secretly plots to break free and return home, a letter from the family forces her to act sooner: the only person in the Wei family who ever loved and cared for her, her grandmother, has died suddenly.
On the train back to Lincheng, she unexpectedly saves Ji Xiuqi, a prominent young man from Lincheng and the intended fiancé of Wei Xiangqi, the Wei family’s eldest daughter.
Back in Lincheng, Wei Qingyuan discovers that both her mother’s and grandmother’s deaths point to her father’s legal wife. But to bring the woman down, she must first take on the warlord Liu family behind her. When she finds herself at an impasse, she learns that Ji Xiuqi is more than just a scion of a prominent family: he is the adopted son of the Southern Governor and a young marshal with an army at his command. He and the Liu family are bitter enemies in a struggle for military power. The two strike a deal. At first, they are no more than pawns using each other, but through their many encounters, Wei Qingyuan’s gentleness, intelligence, resilience, and patience gradually win Ji Xiuqi over, and the two fall for each other.
As she carefully pursues the truth and navigates tangled warlord rivalries, Wei Qingyuan keeps moving forward through the fog, relying on her intelligence and strategic skill.
And Ji Xiuqi is the lamp that guides her through it.
The heroine is described as very cold and calculating. Everyone's name is also very nice. The pace is fast and informal, and it's beautiful!
It's good-looking, the plot is compact, and the plot is addictive. However, only one chapter is updated every day, which makes people anxious to wait!!! I hope the author can add two more chapters!
It's beautiful, it's beautiful, it's so beautiful! Say important things three times!!
It's super good-looking, and the plot is tight and fitting. It just seemed like the pace was hasty and the whole story didn't unfold.
The plot of the story is compact and vivid, and the ending is good. Thank you to the author for his hard work. Five-star praise!