The new top scholar Shen Qingci made a shocking marriage proposal to the young emperor Xiao Jingyan on the Golden Palace in front of all the civil and military officials. A joking bet in the royal study three years ago has now turned into the sharpest blade piercing the imperial power.
This was not a moment of madness, but a plan carefully planned for ten years. In order to find out the murder of his father, a talented man from a poor family used his lifelong talent as bait and shocking love as a net to lure this aloof king into his trap. He calculated the fate of the people and the court, but he failed to calculate that he would fall first.
And the young emperor Xiao Jingyan, from anger to exploration, from suspicion to deep confusion, finally discovered that this most dangerous "rebellious minister and traitor" was actually the only source of heat in his cold imperial career. When the conspiracy is revealed layer by layer, when the blades are really facing each other, at both ends of the gamble, who is the hunter and who is the willing prisoner?
This is a huge gamble with the world at stake, and a trap with sincerity as bait. When the boundary between monarch and subject is completely broken, when lust and murder dance together on the blade, who can escape unscathed?
