After the fall of the previous dynasty, Mu Wanqiao, the daughter of a guilty minister, took on the identity of her friend Jiang Mingzhu, the daughter of the Zhenguo general, and became a piano player, hiding in the alleys of fireworks. Her only wish is to save enough money to redeem herself and run away, completely breaking away from the past.
However, she did not wait for freedom, but instead waited for the tyrant of the new dynasty - Xiao Yan.
Xiao Yan, the iron-blooded emperor who killed his father and brother and came to power, has a surly temperament and is moody. He flattened her homeland and all her dignity. He saw through her disguise at a glance, but did not expose it. He only forced her "fake bird" into the palace and placed her in a cold palace villa where he could only perform for him.
Everyone thought that His Majesty hated the remnants of the previous dynasty, let alone such a cold and aloof woman. But no one knew that every night, when he was tortured by old battlefield wounds and bloody nightmares and couldn't sleep peacefully, only the sound of her piano could give him a moment of peace. He was obsessed with the coldness of her fingertips, and even more obsessed with the unyielding hatred in her eyes.
He forced her and humiliated her, but when she was bullied by the palace people, the thunder was furious and bloodbathed the Sixth Palace. While he imprisoned her in the golden cage, he couldn't help but want to get closer to the only moonlight. Until Jiang Mingzhu, the general's daughter, returned with the marriage contract given by the emperor, and she confidently wanted to take back everything that belonged to her, including the fake who had occupied her "fiancé".
When the truth came to light, the tyrant held her wrist and asked with scarlet eyes, "Are you going back to him?" Mu Wanqiao smiled and said, "Your Majesty, my motherland is dead, so how can I have a fiancé? There is just a transaction between you and me."
What she wanted was never his
