Synopsis of Springtime at Jade Tower
She is the star courtesan of Jade Tower, sending messages to the Jin through Song lyrics.
He is the newly appointed top candidate in the palace examinations. One wrong character is all it takes for him to expose her secret.
That night, she loosened her robes, revealing a peach blossom mark below her collarbone. He said, "Perfect. I've been wanting to rebel, too."
She is a reluctant spy; he is an assassin with the Yanyun Society. They should have been mortal enemies, yet love blossomed between them at knife point. But before dawn, an imperial edict arrived: the emperor wanted her in his palace.
The man who had once traveled incognito and become infatuated with her summoned her after all.
For three years in the imperial palace, she attended the emperor at his bedside, while her heart remained beyond the palace walls. Then the Jin army invaded the south, Emperor Huizong abdicated, and the empress dowager let her leave the palace and flee south. Everyone thought she would go, but she turned around and returned to Jade Tower.
Because the people who killed her parents would soon enter the city.
On the day the city fell, she met Wanyan Zonghan as a "Jin spy." For months afterward, she sang and smiled at her enemy's side, hiding her hatred in every song. Outside the window, the Jin soldiers' patrols marched past. In her arms lay the short blade her mother had left her.
On the final night, she sang him one last song, then pierced his throat.
As she fled Bianjing, she looked back at the city. Later, she rebuilt Jade Tower in Lin'an, where songs and music filled the days and splendor reigned each night. But whenever a song began, she would think of the old peach tree in Bianjing.
Springtime filled Jade Tower with song and music, but left people's hearts empty.
Spring is full of jade tower - full of music and songs, empty of people's hearts. This is the story of a woman who took revenge and rebuilt prosperity with her own hands after her country was destroyed and her family was destroyed, but she could never find her homeland in the prosperity. Peach blossoms have a hard life and can survive. But the hearts of those who are alive have died thousands of times.