Shen Yazhuang, a modern soul trapped in a child's body, spent eighteen years living by the blade, treating everyone as a pawn in her plan to outlast the emperor.
Then the Imperial Preceptor told her that in her previous life, she was doomed to fail because she had been too ruthless and cold-blooded.
At that moment, she decided to defy fate and change her destiny.
For no other reason than the sake of someone named Ling Xiangyun.
Ling Xiangyun was a clear-eyed pessimist, intensely rational and restrained. She refused to please or cling to others, afraid of being unloved and even more afraid of giving her heart away too easily.
"I'm used to being on my own, used to chewing up my grievances and swallowing them down."
Yet, in the spring rain of Jiangnan, that madwoman with blood on her hands was willing to sheathe her claws for her, waiting clumsily for her with the purest, most steadfast heart.
When a scheming hero learns how to be human, and a cool, aloof orchid meets the warm sun.
This is a story of mutual healing, about the realm, fate, and clumsy, true love.
Love at first sight, a heart captured in a single glance.
One stands at the pinnacle of power, longing to overturn a vast empire;
The other is trapped in a sorrowful world, asking only for a peaceful life.
Fate has already bound them tightly together.
Will this meeting end in a happy life together, or in the sorrow of fate? The answer awaits the final curtain.
