Political intrigue × punishing scoundrels × restrained, unspoken love. Historical rebirth.
In her previous life, the eldest princess of Great Xia was blinded by love. The top-scoring scholar, her consort, and a fake noblewoman acting as his mistress joined forces to seize her wealth and kill her child. Reborn, she carves a bloody mark into her armor and advances with careful plans, using differences in information and status to raise her enemies to high positions before uprooting them. The one variable is the mute general who once rode alone into the execution grounds for her and traded his life for hers. In this life, he secretly plants the mother gu in his own heart again, suffering in her place, dying for her, and going mad alongside her.
