On the night of her reborn wedding, Shen Qingtang's confusion over how her previous life ended and her doubts about the man before her only make the stand-in Crown Prince, Fu Yanci, more excited!
In her previous life, she was the beloved daughter of the chancellor, showered with every honor. She married the Crown Prince by imperial decree, only to have her entire family executed on the day she went into labor. Her twins died, and she herself bled to death. Only at the very end did she see the gentle Crown Prince covered in blood, a savage, murderous rage surging in his eyes.
Reborn, she returns to the night of her wedding, with red wedding silks everywhere. Clutching the nuptial wine, she feels hatred and suspicion tighten in her fingertips. The gentle, affectionate Crown Prince is a fake. The man before her, with possessive obsession hidden in his eyes and a heart-devouring poison in his body, is the real one!
He is the shadow lurking in the Eastern Palace, the lord who holds the black market in his grasp, a stand-in villain who schemes at every turn, and a mad, obsessive man who has carved her into his very bones.
In the Crown Prince's name, he imprisons her beneath brocade curtains; he gambles with his life to protect her amid a hail of blades. The agony of the heart-devouring poison cannot wear down his obsession, and a sea of blood and vengeance cannot sever his attachment. “Tangtang, don't even think of running. You are the only light I crawled back from hell to hold on to.”
Shen Qingtang stands with a needle in hand. On one side, she must avenge her family; on the other, the obsessive stand-in offers her the ultimate captivity of doting love. On one side are the treacherous schemes of the court; on the other, his bone-deep devotion and madness.
As the truth is gradually revealed, the fake Crown Prince's true identity exposed, the heart-devouring poison cured, and the power games brought to an end, she finally learns that the cruelest scheme in the world is the one he laid with his life as the piece, a game called “devotion to one alone.” The fiercest love is that of a man who, though only a stand-in, is willing to overturn the realm for her and bear every curse and every pain.
The reborn legitimate daughter tears her enemies apart, while the obsessive stand-in schemes for her heart and life. Beneath the red wedding curtains, love and hate
