Ancient Machiavellian Strategy | Strong and Clean | Yandere Male Protagonist | Evil Female Protagonist | Revenge and Sadomasochism | Court Game | Extreme Pulling | HE
Fifteen years ago, the entire Shen family was executed for "collaborating with the enemy". Five-year-old Shen Jin hid in a rice vat and received a candy cake from a strange boy. That was her last warmth and her obsession to survive.
Fifteen years later, she became the number one courtesan in Yangzhou under the name "Yu Huan". Her song "Breaking Willows" contains the code for the night of the family's destruction, and is designed to lure those who know how to take the bait. Jingbei King Xiao Zhi understood - he had been looking for her for fifteen years, checking her for fifteen years, and finally waited until she walked in front of him.
From the Yangzhou oiran to the palace counselor, from the remnant of the guilty minister to the regent mother, she climbed up by stepping on the bones and blood of her enemies. He teaches her true machinations and she becomes his only weakness. When the truth was revealed layer by layer, she discovered that the real culprit of the family's destruction was the current Queen Mother, and his mother-in-law was actually an accomplice; he discovered that the murderous aura in her piano music came from the same person as the "involvement" poison in himself.
"Chen Jin," he grabbed her neck and pressed her against the wall, his eyes were red, "Do you have any heart at all?" She smiled and kissed the old scar on his tiger's mouth: "The prince taught me that to cut weeds, we must remove the roots."
Two people who are accustomed to using injuries to prove their love are repeatedly torn between the country and love. He bloodbathed half of the imperial city for her, and she avenged him for giving up fifteen years. In the end, he abdicated the throne and gave up the country, just to exchange her life; she exchanged half her life for his, and finally learned that there is no price to pay for being loved.
"I offer the mountains and rivers as a sacrifice to honor our dead love - and then take the ashes to live with you."
