Her family was destroyed overnight. To save her father, she entered the Eastern Palace and became a stand-in for the woman Prince Pei Yanzhi held dear.
A jade hairpin, a shadow from the past: she wore the traces of another woman while concealing the sharp edge of revenge. They began as pawns using each other, but amid the bamboo grove at night and the lamplight of the warm pavilion, they began to feel what they should not.
Life is but a dream, and every meeting and parting is uncertain.
We meet as passing strangers; parting is nothing out of the ordinary.
Love and hate, sorrow and joy, all rise and fall,
Only to end as words on a page, scattered among the world's fleeting pleasures.
