On her first day as the Eastern Depot’s chief, she knew she wouldn’t hold on to the position for long.
The court officials wanted her dead, the eunuchs wanted her overthrown, and even the emperor regarded her with equal parts wariness and reliance.
All she wanted was to survive, and live well. No one was going to touch her.
Then she met the young man she had once saved on a whim.
Three years ago, she was a senior officer in the Eastern Depot. She had casually given a winter coat to a down-on-his-luck hostage prince.
Three years later, she was a powerful chief who held sway over the court, and he was a prince of Beishuo who had returned for revenge.
“Shen Zhao, I’m the last person in this world who would ever hurt you.”
She didn’t believe him.
But when she was trapped in a hopeless situation, surrounded on all sides, he was the first to appear before her.
When he was ambushed and on the brink of death, she was the first to rush to his side.
Two people who had clawed their way out of hell: the first one to fall in love would lose.
But she didn’t know he had long since staked his life on her.
