She is the most embarrassing princess in the Ming Dynasty - her biological mother is humble and she walks on thin ice in the deep palace.
He is the most mysterious guest of Jiangnan Weaving Bureau - he has a blood feud and has endured it for ten years in the dark night.
In the tenth year of Wanli, the Queen Mother visited Suzhou in the south, and Princess Zhu Yanyue of Ning'an accompanied her. At the Yuan Lantern Festival, she met the person who ruined her life - Shen Yunjie, guest minister of the Weaving Bureau. Lantern riddle couplets, harps and music, she thought she had met her soulmate, but she didn't know he had another purpose for approaching her.
A corruption case involving millions of dollars in the Weaving Bureau tightly entangled the fate of the two. In Shen Yunjie's hands, he holds the truth about her biological mother's murder; behind Zhu Yanyue, stands the Ming Dynasty that she must protect. After he is the guilty minister, she is the golden branch and jade leaf; he wants revenge, and she wants justice.
From the mist and rain in the south of the Yangtze River to the storm in the capital, from the depths of the palace to the battlefield outside the Great Wall, they were repeatedly torn between the righteousness of their family and the love of their children. When the old case was revealed and the truth was revealed, they thought they could finally stay together——
Little did he know that a bigger storm was brewing above the court...
She was his calamity, and he was her life.
In this life, mountains and rivers are our betrothed, and the sun and moon are our allies. I only wish to hold my son's hand and grow old together with him.