She is the most beloved Princess Zhaoming of the Dayong dynasty, and at this very moment, she is exchanging wedding vows with the man who killed her father.
Beneath her scarlet wedding robes, she carefully uses her fingertip to smear a deadly poison called “Dream of Yellow Millet” inside the wall of her nuptial wine cup. The powder is fine, silent, and impossible to detect. Her groom waits just outside the door, wearing wedding robes just as brilliantly red, convinced that at last he will possess her completely.
She wants to see whether, when he finally holds her as she dies from the poison, a smile still on her lips, he will regret not letting her fall to her death from the Star-Picking Tower all those years ago.
