When Yun Zhaoyue jumped off the cliff, she was not thinking of death, but of freedom. As the legitimate daughter of the Yun family, she was already "buried" by the family while she was still alive - after her mother died of illness, her father allowed her stepmother to imprison her in a side courtyard, and now she is going to be married off to the 60-year-old Minister of the Ministry of War as a sequel.
She didn't expect that there would be a young man in Tsing Yi sitting by the deep pool under the cliff making tea. The man looked up at her, there was no surprise in his eyes, he just said calmly: "Don't dirty my fish even if you die."
Xiao Linyuan also didn't expect that this crazy woman who fell from the sky would be the change that stirred up his stagnant life. On the surface he is the powerful regent, but in fact he is the Xiao family's dirtiest secret - the eldest son who died "accidentally" twenty years ago. Now that he lives under his brother's name, his parents always look at him with hatred.
An unexpected chase forces two scarred souls to go together. She discovered that this "businessman" could easily mobilize the border guards; he realized that this "lady" knew the secrets of the court. When his identity was revealed, he held her chin and sneered: "So you are the legitimate daughter of the Yun family who is going to marry the old man." She slapped her with her backhand: "So you are the regent who approved the marriage contract."
From hating each other to hugging each other for warmth, from being on the run to standing side by side on the top of the court. When Yun Zhaoyue stood in the Jinluan Palace holding the Phoenix Seal, and when Xiao Linyuan tore off the mask he had worn for twenty years, they finally understood - some encounters are both abyss and redemption.
