Ten years ago, her family was destroyed. Shi Yi assumed the guise of a cool, aloof transfer student and lay low at Shengying Academy, an elite school for the nobility. She is the mysterious master of the underground organization Ash Pavilion, burdened by a blood feud and determined to uncover the truth behind her family’s massacre.
Gong Fanyue is the untouchable scion at the top of Shengying’s social ladder. He secretly commands the criminal underworld’s Dark Prison, cold and obsessive, and has spent ten years searching north and south for his childhood friend, who vanished when they were young.
They meet as sworn enemies, clashing on campus while fighting on two fronts in the shadows. She is convinced he is the child of her enemy, and keeps him at arm’s length, wary at every step. He suspects she is deliberately imitating and clinging to him, and keeps up a stubborn front as he puts her down, yet instinctively protects her whenever danger strikes.
Shi Xi, a sweet-faced schemer, stirs up trouble and frames them one after another. Lu Zhiyan, a gentle and devoted loyalist, has stood by her for ten years and quietly cleans up after her. Su Wanqing, a clear-eyed idealized love, makes a graceful exit, while Shen Jin, who has watched events unfold with cool detachment, protects her tenderly.
When childhood keepsakes and old scars resurface one after another, and their fragmented memories gradually return, the two realize with shock that the sworn enemies who have faced off day after day are actually the childhood friends who were separated ten years ago.
A blood feud stands between them, and love and hatred pull them in opposite directions. They are natural rivals, but also allies bound by fate.
