Main characters: Wen Qionghua and Nangong Ye
[A bewitchingly proud, fox-like beauty vs. a cold, distant, unhinged emperor]
A rising fashion designer from the 21st century, she gets into a car accident while traveling abroad in search of inspiration and becomes Wen Qionghua, the legitimate daughter of a marquis's household in the Southern Dynasty, who died by jumping into a well.
She inherits all the memories and hatred of the original owner from her previous life. She watched as the mother who loved her died along with her newborn on the night of childbirth. The next day, her father brought a boy and a girl about her age before her.
“Qionghua, this is your elder sister, Wen Shuyan, and your brother, Wen Binxiu.”
She could only watch as Wen Shuyan took her place as the marquis's legitimate daughter, and the family of four lived together in bliss...
When she was eight, a fortune-teller happened to declare that she had an exceptionally noble destiny. Not long afterward, she caught the plague. Her stepmother drove her from the household and sent her overnight to the outskirts of Qingzhou, a thousand miles away. Betrayed by her nurse and abused by the guards, she eventually jumped into a well in tears, ending her miserable life.
After becoming a ghost, she saw that the elder sister who had taken her identity was thriving in the capital and had even entered the palace as a favored consort. The once-dilapidated marquis's household had risen to new heights...
The Crown Prince Nangong Ye is cold and distant to everyone, with his heart belonging only to the one he shared past hardships with, his unattainable first love. Wen Qionghua couldn't care less. So what if he has a first love? She'll become the one etched in his heart.
That iron-hearted crown prince, so loyal to his first love, eventually falls into the web she has spun. From cold and distant, he becomes madly obsessed, willing to set aside his pride and personally raise her to the heights of power.
In this life, she returns, bathing in blood, with a beauty that could topple kingdoms as her weapon and a modern mind that can see through human nature. She plots carefully, laying one scheme after another, determined to reclaim everything that belongs to her and make her enemies pay.
She believes in nothing but herself, not in love. Even in ancient times, she has clear goals and lofty ambitions, and is determined to rise to the very top.
