He is a down-and-out prince who has been demoted for three years and is full of infamy. She is the female shopkeeper who left an orphan and hid in the market for her brother. A farce of choosing a concubine, tying two people who should not have crossed paths into the same boat. He used her to clear his name and return to the East Palace battle, and she used him to find out the truth about his brother's death in the battle. At first, everyone cooperated to get what they needed, but later they discovered that the thread held in the palm could no longer tell who was pulling whom. In the ninth level of the imperial city, people's hearts were like abyss. The coldest one was the emperor's heart, and the hottest one was the cup of crude tea she handed him.