In her previous life, Princess Liang Zhiyi, legitimate daughter of the Great Liang dynasty, poured all her brilliance into raising two wolves.
Her half-sister, Liang Xiwen, stole her talent and ideas, while her fiancé, Sima Yunyi, used her royal connections and her maternal family's military power to climb to the top.
Together, they turned the emperor against her, fabricated accusations, stripped her of her title as legitimate princess, and imprisoned her in the Cold Palace.
On a night of heavy snow, she froze on a straw bed, watching with her own eyes as the two who had stolen her life basked in glory.
Reborn at sixteen, she returned to a time before any of those tragedies had come to pass.
With frost in her eyes, Liang Zhiyi put away all her tenderness and stopped offering them even a glimmer of light.
When Liang Xiwen came asking for essays and poems again, she politely refused, tearing away her sister's false mask of a gifted scholar.
When Sima Yunyi tried to use her as a stepping stone, she steadily distanced herself and cut off his shortcut to success.
Everyone in the palace called her cold-hearted. Only Sima Yunqing, the illegitimate son of a duke who had long been oppressed by his legitimate elder brother, saw the deep vendetta she carried.
In her previous life, on that snowy night in the Cold Palace, he alone secretly gathered her remains and guarded the truth of her wrongful conviction.
In this life, as undercurrents surged through the court and palace, he stayed hidden in the shadows, becoming her most dependable trump card.
A jewel of the imperial line shines like the moon on its own. She need not rely on anyone else for even a sliver of light.
In this life, she will plan each step, settle every debt, and preserve her innocence, never borrowing so much as a glimmer from the world.
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