The Chen Prince’s Residence has protected Jing for a hundred years, generation after generation, yet has become a thorn in the emperor’s side. When the blade of political intrigue is turned against the Lu family and the Chen Prince’s Residence, the meeting between Jiang Hua and Chu Jingchuan is destined to become a desperate gamble with the world as their game board.
She is the granddaughter of the scholarly Lu family of Jiangnan. Skilled in martial arts and business, clear-minded and independent, she vows to take her fate into her own hands.
He is Jing’s most decorated warrior, the Chen Prince, disfigured and disabled, enduring in silence while bearing the heavy shackles of his family’s century-old legacy.
With the emperor suspicious of him, her former fiancé betraying her, the court rife with infighting, and foreign enemies closing in, they use marriage as a shield and military power as a spear, carving out a path to survival amid layers of deadly threats.
She uncovers an old case for him and breaks apart the enemy’s forces, trusting him with her life on the battlefield.
He sheds his disguise for her and entrusts her with his weakness, protecting her from every danger in the abyss of political intrigue.
When Jing turns against him and the world descends into chaos, he finally rebels against the rotten court.
Not for the throne, but so he can live with her in a quiet corner of the world and safeguard a place of peace. From a marriage of convenience to trusting each other with their lives, from political maneuvering to tender love.
“Hua Hua, is there something we’ve forgotten?”
“What?”
“...Let’s do it again.”
