The disgraced consort who clawed her way out of the Cold Palace is a poison-wielding physician who commands life and death.
The emperor on the Golden Throne is a power-hungry hunter with a sincere heart.
Su Nanyi has poison on her hands and hatred in her heart.
Her father and brothers were framed, her entire family sentenced to death, and the man she loved personally cast her into the Cold Palace. She endured three years of bone-deep cold poison and spent those same three years plotting a revenge that would eat her alive.
Once she was moved out of the Cold Palace, she turned Yaoguang Hall into a chessboard, wielded medicine and poison as her blades, and stirred up turmoil in the harem while keeping the power struggles at court in check.
She could save a loyal minister on the brink of death, or make an evil consort rot away without a sound.
She could forge an alliance with Prince Jing, Xiao Jue, and together shake the court to its foundations, yet the emperor's relentless pressure still left her heart in disarray.
He was the man who had personally cast her into hell, and the man who had secretly protected her for three years.
In the game of power, there are no eternal allies, only eternal interests.
Between love and hate, there is no pure sincerity, only a contest of schemes.
When the empress's phoenix seal struck the ground at her feet, when the Duke of Zhenguo's head hung from the city tower, when the injustice against the Su family was finally exposed to the world,
Su Nanyi realized that in this struggle of power, love, and hatred, there had never been a winner.
Would they join hands and rule the realm together, or draw their swords and forget each other forever?
She would scheme for a lifetime of power and stake everything on a tragic romance.
