Yan Wushuang, daughter of a disgraced consort, lost her entire family as a child and was reduced to slave status. An orphan from the Cold Palace with a mysterious past, she is caught in the maelstrom of court politics.
The general’s household takes her to test medicines on her. When a poison attack reveals her medical skills, she is imprisoned instead. With her life hanging by a thread, she meets the nobleman Pei Xuanji, who buys her as a spy.
She trades her services for clues, maps secret passages, and steals information, but when her identity is exposed, she narrowly escapes death. Faking her own death, she sets out on the path of revenge.
The palace is rife with secret struggles. The prince is ruthless, the general cunning, and the princess merciless. Every step is deadly.
She wields poison like a blade, her heart cold as frost. The black-hearted heroine awakens and turns the tables.
The stern but tender-hearted male lead stands by her, yet conceals a plot to restore his kingdom. A tale of punishing villains, palace intrigue, revenge, a comeback, and political scheming on a grand scale.
See how she rises from slavery, defies fate, burns away the grudges of the past, and plays the game of power across the realm!
