In her previous life, Shen Qingyan was the most foolish legitimate daughter in the capital.
She trusted the gentle crown prince and her frail half-sister, sacrificing the glory of her entire family for love. In the end, her family was destroyed, both her hands crippled, and she was burned alive!
Only as she lay dying did she learn the truth: the regent, Xie Wujin, whom the world reviled as cruel and violent, had loved her in silence for ten years and protected her for a decade. Yet she misunderstood him her entire life and utterly betrayed him.
Reborn in flames, she returned to the time before her coming-of-age ceremony, with everything starting over.
The scumbag crown prince wanted to marry her? She tore up the engagement in front of everyone, called him out, and broke it off. She would never repeat the same mistake!
Her white-lotus half-sister pretended to be weak? With her mastery of poisons, Shen Qingyan exposed her hypocrisy and crushed her at every turn without mercy!
In this life, she possessed unparalleled skills in poison and medicine. She would protect her family, avenge their blood, and take control of her own fate, clear-eyed, cunning, and decisive.
Only with the cold, taciturn regent did she willingly reach out, offering him gentle redemption.
Everyone said the regent was cold-blooded and merciless, with countless lives on his hands. Shen Qingyan alone knew he was the only good man in the world who had once given her everything and shielded her from every storm.
Reborn, she thawed the heart he had kept frozen for ten years.
From then on, the ruthless powerbroker fell under the spell of her tenderness, and he offered her a vast empire as his bride-price.
He wielded power over all under heaven, yet cherished only her. For all the years to come, she would be the only one in his eyes.
