Shen Qingshuang spent sixteen years as the Shen family's impostor daughter. On the day of her coming-of-age ceremony, she finally became engaged to her second brother, Shen Yunji, the person who cared for her most. She thought she would spend the rest of her life in peace, but then her second brother brought Zhou Xiaoman back from the border, and everything changed.
The day she fell off the cliff, everyone thought she was dead. Shen Yunji held her body and held a ghost wedding with her, then turned around and went to fight in the Northern Frontier.
No one knew that some mountain folk had found her and sold her to the Eighth Prince's residence as a lowly maid. She remembered nothing, only that her name was A Ling. Prince Xiao Yun was known in the capital as a living demon. He killed without blinking on the battlefield, and people were carried out of his residence every few days. A Ling smeared ash on her face every day, hunched over her work, and feared the prince might notice her.
But Xiao Yun noticed her anyway.
He gave her a new padded coat, stood up for her, and raised her from a lowly maid to his principal consort. The whole capital said the Eighth Prince cherished A Ling above all else, and anyone who crossed her would regret it.
A Ling thought she would spend the rest of her life with the Eighth Prince. Until one day, the blood clot in her head cleared and she remembered everything.
She remembered she was Shen Qingshuang. She remembered her second brother, Shen Yunji, the marriage contract she had signed, and the absurd ghost wedding.
But she also remembered how Xiao Yun had taken a blade for her, avenged her, and paved every road ahead of her.
On one side was a childhood sweetheart of sixteen years. On the other was a living demon who had risked his life to protect her.
There was only one of her, and only one heart.
