Ren Miaomiao, a beautiful invalid from the Spirit Realm, descends to the mortal world and becomes the empress's "cheat code."
Born with damaged spiritual meridians, she cannot be cured by any medicine. Ren Miaomiao, young master of Qiantingzhou, has only one last way to survive: send her soul across to the mortal realm, take on the identity of the maid "Shaoyao," and help Wen Wanci, a woman destined to become empress in the mortal world, ascend to the throne. By borrowing Wen Wanci's fortune, she can repair her life-bound jade slip. Time is running out. If she fails, her soul will be destroyed.
From a cold courtyard in a border province to the turbulent capital, Ren Miaomiao uses magic to tend to Wen Wanci with one hand and manipulates the game of power with the other. She teaches her etiquette and strategy, helps her father rise through the ranks, and foils conspiracies and underhanded attacks. She will use the mortal world as her furnace and political schemes as her fire, forging the timid daughter of a concubine, Wen Wanci, into the most dazzling phoenix.
But an unexpected complication arises on the path to saving herself...
He is a promising disciple of a mysterious sect, and the sharpest blade at the Fourth Prince's side: silent, keen, and surrounded by a dangerous aura that makes her jade slip tremble. She sees him as a perfect tool and a tonic, deliberately draws close, and makes rational use of him. After all, once her mission is complete, she will leave, and the two worlds will be forever separated.
Yet every time she calmly plots, he silently protects her; every time she puts herself in danger, he shields her with his life. Until the day she "dies after accomplishing her mission," vanishing in his arms.
That day, he felt an immense bewilderment and obsession, abandoned on the outside of the game.
After enduring countless hardships, they meet again at the summit of the Spirit Realm.
She has reclaimed her honored position, radiant beyond compare. At a grand gathering of the sects, he smashes through three thousand barriers between worlds, covered in wounds, his eyes dark as the eternal night. In full view of everyone, he looks up at her on the high platform:
"This time, don't think you can escape me."
Reading notes:
Two formidable leads flirt and spar, keeping each other on tenterhooks: a scheming, beautiful invalid x a stoic, devoted guard dog with MAX combat power.
Theme: Stand on your own and grow strong.
