After Faking My Death for Five Years, the Cold-Faced Prince Begs Me to Get Back Together

A disfigured woman is used as a body double for her own death, buying her five years of peace. But a phoenix-patterned iron box hidden beneath the stove drags her back into a deadly struggle!

To save her younger brother, trapped in a death-cell, Shen Heng assumes a false name and infiltrates the Xie residence in Tanxi Lane.

She thinks her employer is just an ordinary physician. But when she opens the door, she comes face to face with Prince Jing'an, Xie Yan, the man who controlled her fate five years ago!

Old handwriting hidden in a secret compartment, old scratch marks on the bed, the Empress Dowager's blood-phoenix insignia suddenly appearing in a crack in the wall...

Deadly threats close in at every turn, forcing her to play a high-stakes game with the prince.

Then an identical twin sister appears in an alley in the east of the city, and the dying proprietor of Huichun Hall reveals three pages of bloodstained, genuine accounts!

The escape she thought she had achieved was merely a move on someone else's board, and a fatal one at that!

The Empress Dowager's forced marriage, a deficit of 140,000 taels in the canal transport accounts, the young emperor's ascension and the abolition of the princely title...

On the night the conspiracy explodes in full, Xie Yan is struck by several blades, yet shields her behind the ferry crossing:

"A Heng, take the ledger and go. This time, I'll be the one to stay!"

With the whole realm hunting them as traitors, how will these fugitive lovers turn their desperate situation around?