At first: a defiant, flamboyant woman vs. a two-faced, scheming man. Later: a flamboyant, impossibly cool empress vs. the greatest treacherous minister in the land, loyal to the sovereign but not necessarily to the country.
In her previous life, Shen Qiao and Su Yan were bitter rivals, clashing again and again. But in the end, while the snipe and the clam fought, the fisherman profited. Su Yan confessed his feelings on his deathbed, but Shen Qiao could only sneer at him.
Reborn, she returned to the day they first met. She planned to challenge him once again, but gradually realized that her old nemesis, who had made life difficult for her at every turn, had been hiding an unspoken secret crush on her.