Shen Nian, the concubine of the Prime Minister's Palace, was forced to marry Xiao Yan, the rumored disfigured and violent Prince of Zhenbei, on behalf of her eldest sister. There was no decent wedding dress and no wedding party. She only brought a bag of snacks she made before stepping into the gloomy palace.
On the wedding night, the rumored "cold-faced King of Hell" who kills without batting an eye actually clumsily served a plate of crooked candied haws - "I heard that you loved to eat them when you were a child."
From that moment on, Shen Nian discovered that this man who was feared by everyone in the court would not dare to sleep all night just because she turned over, would secretly buy a hairpin that she had looked at twice, and would write a "love letter" with only four words and stuff it under her pillow.
And Xiao Yan also discovered that this little concubine who came for marriage would hold his hand on a thunderstorm night and say "I'm afraid too", would remember the names and birthdays of everyone in the palace, and would use her own way to turn the cold palace into a warm home.
This is a story about healing and going both ways. She taught him how to love, and he gave her a preference he had never had before. When the entire palace became her "maternal family", the prince who once only wanted to live said——
"Chen Nian, I used to think that living is enough, but now I want to spend my whole life with you."
