Wen Moyan is the Northstar Kingdom emperor’s third son. But when he was five, a struggle in the imperial harem got his mother and him banished to the Cold Palace. Eight years later, he met eight-year-old Chu Zixuan behind a rockery. She had returned to the capital with her parents, and from then on, he schemed and plotted while she helped him plan. She never called him out on his schemes or begrudged him his plans. She only hoped he could leave the shadows of his past behind and welcome a better future.
He was always afraid she would discover his schemes. He feared his darkness would hurt her sunshine, so he chose to protect her in silence. As long as he could stay by her side, that was enough.
But when a prince from another kingdom sought her hand, and many in the palace wanted Chu Zixuan sent away in a political marriage, he had no choice but to take a dangerous gamble. All he wanted was to keep her by his side...
But the Western Regions prince’s words jolted him awake. He could do anything for her, even eliminate anyone who stood in her way. But keeping her in the capital like this, without telling her the truth, was that not a kind of imprisonment for her too...?
