[Two powerful leads + marriage before love + historical romance + lighthearted comedy + secret identities]
The capital of Great Ye hides a shocking secret no one knows: two famous figures with vastly different reputations are actually fake spouses who share a home and put on an act every day!
Shen Lingwei is known throughout the capital as its number one sickly beauty. Mistreated by her stepmother from childhood, she’s frail and weak, and can barely hold a horse stance. Everyone pities her as a delicate young lady. But no one knows that this seemingly fragile heiress is actually “Thousand Mechanisms,” a master artificer skilled in every kind of ingenious craft who roams freely through the world. Her pampered, feeble persona is nothing but a carefully crafted disguise.
Xiao Jingyan, the powerful Prince Jing who holds sway over the court, is another eccentric figure in the capital. He spends his days in a wheelchair, weak and coughing blood, bedridden and seemingly near death. Everyone considers him a crippled prince with little time left. But when night falls, he sheds his sickly disguise and becomes the mysterious master of the Nightwatch Bureau, an extraordinary fighter who vaults over rooftops and hunts down corrupt officials at court.
An imperial edict from on high forces the two master actors together in marriage. On their wedding night, they hit it off and set the rules: separate rooms, no bothering each other, and each of them keeps up their own act.
From then on, the capital has a model couple who treat each other with mutual respect in public, but are sworn rivals in private, constantly trading barbs and sabotaging each other in clever ways. She secretly takes apart his wheelchair with her mechanisms, while he uses his lightness skills to sneak off with all her late-night snacks...
Two-way disguises, a cast of drama queens, and a years-long battle of acting prowess: the hilarious show is about to begin!
