Devoted lovers + first love + substitute + scheming + comedy + unwavering love
The palace hot springs boil, and sandalwood incense seeps into the bones. A reborn emperor cuts down every false show of affection at his side with a single stroke, only to accidentally reveal a secret of earth-shaking proportions.
Xie Yun sneaks into the palace for three days to seek justice for her sister, but accidentally walks into the emperor’s deadly trap.
In a moment of rashness, she stakes her life for ten days, swallows poison in place of the empress, and steps into the palace’s deadly game.
She is the Northern Defender Marquis’s hidden blade in the northwest, proud and unbending, with no interest in love, only in clearing her name and righting old wrongs. He is the emperor who rules from his solitary seat in the great hall, a lifetime spent scheming, trusting no one, and seeking only to defy fate.
The Fengyi Palace is surrounded by spies, turmoil churns beneath the Ci’an Hall, and the imperial clan watches like a tiger waiting to pounce.
She feigns obedience as she navigates the game of power;
He tests her at every turn, only to fall for her feigned tenderness.
He traps her for ten days with poison, hoping to make her a piece on his board.
She uses her cunning to overturn the entire game, turning the emperor himself into a bargaining chip in her hands.
A false phoenix and a pretender emperor, playing out the schemes of the inner palace; the moon sinks into the palace’s ashes, and at last the land is cleansed.
It turns out the cruelest scheme of all is to pretend to play along with you, only to take your empire and avenge my family’s blood feud.
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