Yin Zhiyu was born with a beauty that dazzled the capital, a face that every man in the realm coveted.
She should have been the capital’s most treasured jewel, but instead she became obsessively infatuated with Huo Bingchen, Marquis of Jing’an, even begging the emperor to force them into marriage.
To her surprise, her stepmother and stepsister turned him against her, and the heir to Prince Yu’s title led her astray. In the end, she was cast aside in divorce!
Fate had even crueler twists in store. The entire Yin family was framed and executed, and she was sent away as a pawn to marry into the Cangren court. After enduring endless humiliation, she died in a military camp, only learning at the end that her whole life had been an elaborate deception!
Reborn overnight, she returns to the spring hunt when she was sixteen, the day she was attacked. With a blade at her throat, the despair of her previous life comes rushing back.
She casts off her arrogance, conceals her sharp edges, and vows to protect the Yin family.
But fate refuses to cooperate. At a banquet around the brazier, Emperor Lin’an issues an edict betrothing her to the Sixth Prince, the very culprit behind her family’s ruin!
She flatly defies the decree, and just as she is trapped in a deadly predicament, Marquis Huo Bingchen of Jing’an kneels before everyone and asks for her hand, binding her once more to the threads of destiny.
If there is no way to avoid it, then she will step into the game!
This time, she will no longer be a pawn manipulated by others. With the script of her rebirth in hand, she will outwit the corrupt schemers of the household, unravel conspiracies at court, and overturn the struggle for imperial power!
But… why is the cold-faced marquis so different from the man she knew in her previous life?