With the silver for her freedom in hand, she steps into the cannibalistic Marquis of Zhenbei’s household.
The warmth of the old days at Hengwu Manor conceals schemes no one knows about. In the marquis’s household, blades lurk beneath the domestic calm, and she fights for survival at every turn.
A great fire severs her from the past.
After three years in Jiangnan, she takes a new name and identity, tending her painting stall and living the peaceful life she had long dreamed of.
An old acquaintance arrives through the rain. He wields power over the court and is consumed by regret, pleading with her to come back.
But what was broken in the past can never return to how it was.
