She was once the most dazzling young woman in the capital. Overnight, her entire family was convicted, and she was reduced to a lowly musician in the Entertainment Bureau.
He was once the young general who had promised to grow old with her. Though only a palace wall separated them, he personally sent her family to the executioner's block.
Ten years later, she returned to the capital as a salt merchant’s concubine, carefully plotting every step, all to bring down his empire.
Only when the blade of revenge pierced his chest did she realize that the treasonous letter from all those years ago had been written in a code only the two of them understood.
It turned out that from the very beginning, it wasn’t his empire he wanted to save, but her life.
And she had personally blocked off the last path to survival.
