A cautious, unassuming junior official who is actually a foreign princess in disguise, ambitious and skilled at keeping people in line, VS a seemingly scheming Minister of Justice who is actually a prince living in exile, plotting to seize the throne and getting carried away as he’s bossed around.
Jiang Sui had two wishes in life: for Lu Jingheng to die horribly, leaving no body behind, and for Lu Jingheng to die horribly, leaving no body behind. Unfortunately, neither came true. She hated Lu Jingheng, who always seemed to thwart her.
She dreamed of killing him, but no matter how much she obsessed over it or how hard she tried, nothing worked. Instead, he killed her with a cup of poisoned wine. She hated him for it.
With no other choice, as she lay dying, she poisoned Lu Jingheng too, taking him with her.
Lu Jingheng’s life began in a web of plots and schemes. Though he was the emperor’s son, circumstances forced him to grow up among commoners. He was ruthless, and his life also ended amid plots and schemes. There was no one he hated in this life except Jiang Sui.
He had shown her mercy at every turn, but that maid struck to kill every time. Even as she lay dying, she poisoned him and took him with her.
How despicable. He would never let her go, not in this life or the next. He ordered her body burned, then had himself buried with her ashes. He even ordered sixteen coffin nails driven in to seal the tomb, so they would never be parted, in life or death!
Neither expected that they would both be reborn and face off once more. Jiang Sui discovered that her father and brother’s deaths had been part of a larger plot. After faking her death and escaping the palace, she ran into Lu Jingheng again in a village.
“Running? Where do you think you’re going? No matter where you run, I’ll find you.”
Later, when the new emperor ascended the throne, he made Jiang Sui his empress.
Jiang Sui said she had no interest in being empress and turned to leave. The palace attendants all fell to their knees, begging for mercy.
“Please spare us, Your Majesty! If you leave, His Majesty will kill us!”
“Please save
