Xie Wan Yuan, daughter of the Pavilion Master of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, was born under an ill star. Astrologers predicted that any husband she married would die, leaving her destined for a lonely life. At sixteen, she was betrothed, but three eligible young men turned her down one after another.
Only Pei Han Zhou, a hostage prince from the northern frontier, actively asked to marry her, saying, “I’ll enter the game alone, unafraid of ghosts or gods.”
Both were pawns discarded by their respective players: Xie Wan Yuan was a family’s scapegoat, used to cover up a secret, while Pei Han Zhou was a hostage in the emperor’s hands.
Bound together by a marriage contract, they go from using each other to facing the game side by side, until at last they overturn the board that had kept her under its thumb for twenty years.
Sounds good and interesting