In her previous life, Su Jinse was the legitimate daughter of a marquis, blessed with both beauty and talent. But she trusted the wrong person, her half-sister framed her for losing her chastity, and her entire family was executed. She died with bitter hatred, swearing that if she ever had another life, she would make her enemies pay in blood. Reborn one day at the age of fifteen, she returned to a time before the tragedy began. And the emperor who had personally forced her to drink poison in her previous life had returned with his memories too. Two souls bound by a sea of bloodshed cross paths once more in a whirlpool of political intrigue. Amid the towering walls of the imperial palace and the perilous depths of a noble household, she advances step by step, turning others into weapons and plotting against everyone who wronged and humiliated her in her previous life. As the truth is revealed piece by piece, she discovers that the massacre of her family was part of an even greater conspiracy... This time, she wants more than the emptiness of revenge. She wants to control her own fate, and the fate of this vast empire.