She is a surgeon who transmigrated into another world. Hoping to live peacefully amid the chaos, she accidentally falls into a frigid pool and rescues the “monster” wearing a bronze mask.
He is a former crown prince who has fallen from power, biding his time under his enemy’s thumb, consumed by schemes and a thirst for revenge. But an unexpected woman barges in and throws all his plans into disarray.
That night, beneath the cold moon over the icy pool, wine clouds their judgment. She becomes the only cure for him, and he becomes the fate she cannot escape.
Thinking it was nothing more than a fleeting affair, she wakes and leaves without hesitation, fleeing south to Jiangnan while pregnant.
Five years later, just as she thinks she can finally live in peace, the man she left behind has climbed a mountain of corpses to claim the throne. He casts off every disguise. He is no longer a sickly heir, but an unhinged emperor with the world in his grasp.
He offers her all of Jiangnan as her bride price and uses an iron fist to imprison her by his side once more. His gaze is possessive and crazed. “Qianqian, this realm is mine, and so are you. You may escape for a while, but you can’t run forever.”
He advances step by step; she retreats step by step.
In this game of pursuit, who will fall in love first? And who will lose their heart? He chases, she runs, and she has no way to escape.
Only in the end does she understand that the greatest prison in the world is not the imperial palace, but the cage he built for her and named “love.”
