To save her younger brother’s life, Wen Nian signs a contract of servitude and becomes the “personal assistant” to Fu Sihan, the living King of Hell of the imperial capital.
Rumor has it that Fu Sihan suffers from severe insomnia and manic episodes. He is violent and unpredictable, and no one dares go near him.
Only Wen Nian knows how deranged he can be in the dead of night.
He holds her captive in his arms, greedily breathing in her cool fragrance, and whispers in her ear like a demon: “Wen Nian, you’re my medicine. You’re not allowed to go anywhere but stay by my side.” She thinks obedience will earn her peace, until the “white moonlight” in his heart returns from abroad.
To protect that woman, he personally pushes his pregnant wife into the eye of the storm, forcing her to hand over her family’s secret fragrance recipes and coldly watching her suffer one humiliation after another.
At last, Wen Nian comes to her senses.
In a devastating fire aboard a luxury cruise ship, she throws herself into the sea without hesitation, leaving no body behind.
That night, the invincible Fu Sihan goes mad. He clutches her charred corpse and vomits blood before falling unconscious. When he wakes, he bathes the entire imperial capital in blood, all to make it join her in death...