A Stunning Beauty Beneath the Brocade Robes

[The daughter of an upright civil official VS the jade-faced demon, commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard] On the Double Ninth Festival, she meets Pei Yanzhi at the foot of Qixia Mountain, the powerful commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard known as the “Jade-Faced Demon.” He wears black, his gaze sharp as a blade. At their first meeting, his eyes are like ice and fire, mingling hatred and pain, as if he is looking past her face at a past he can never reach. He saves her from danger, then says coldly, “Take care of the mess.” He closes in on her step by step, yet deliberately keeps his distance, hiding all his concern beneath a cold exterior. Shen Weixi has no idea that she looks exactly like the long-dead woman he has always loved. Nor does she know that he is about to drag her into a bloody storm that will engulf the imperial court. When an old case from years past stirs up trouble once more, he is imprisoned and stripped of his power. Everyone believes he is doomed to sink into the mire forever. But the usually gentle daughter of the Shen family boldly casts aside her demure-lady facade, fighting for him at court and speaking in his defense before the swords. He smiles bitterly. “You shouldn’t have come.” She gazes at him stubbornly, her eyes clear as spring water. “This time, let me be the one to come to you.”