Synopsis
In the winter of Qiyuan Year 27, poisoned wine burned its way through her throat in the cold palace. Su Qingyan, the legitimate daughter of the Duke of Zhenguo’s household, watched with her own eyes as her half-sister, Su Lianyue, wore her finest robes and her mother’s keepsake, smiling as she claimed everything that belonged to her.
Her betrothal, her family, and even Emperor Xiao Jingyuan, whom she had devoted herself to helping, all became stepping-stones for someone else’s rise. The blood feud left by the execution of her entire family became the sharpest hatred she felt as she lay dying.
Reborn in a single moment, Su Qingyan returned to the glorious summer of her fifteenth year.
In this life, all innocence has left her eyes, replaced by cold resolve. She will protect the Duke of Zhenguo’s household, shatter the schemes that ruined her past life, and seize control of her own fate. She will also tear away Su Lianyue’s gentle facade with her own hands and make Xiao Jingyuan pay for his former coldness and deceit.
Having returned from a sea of blood, she is determined to turn the world upside down.
