In the 14th year of Yuanhe in Daliang Dynasty, the winter solstice happened.
All the members of the Zhenguo Palace were killed in the battle, and the only orphan, Princess Chen Wu of Changning, was forced to marry the son of the enemy who forced her father and brother to death - Xie Chongheng, the son of the chief minister of the dynasty and the head of the Xie family.
On their wedding night, Xie Chongheng expected to see a trembling, weak-tempered girl, but instead she was greeted by a chillingly calm negotiation. Chen Wu used the military talisman as a bargaining chip to make a deal with him: she wanted Xie's right to be the matriarch of the family, wanted him to be her sword, and she wanted to use his power to kill the real culprits who killed her father and brother.
One is a wolf in sheep's clothing, and the other is Shura in human skin. Two lunatics started a huge gamble using the world as a chessboard.
From establishing power in the inner house, to taking revenge at the palace banquet; from confrontation in the golden palace, to killing evildoers in the palace. Chen Wu stepped on the bones to climb to the pinnacle of power step by step, while Xie Chongheng accompanied her step by step into the abyss.
But when she finally killed her enemy and stood at the pinnacle of power, overlooking all living beings, she understood——
When an avalanche occurs, no snowflake is innocent. Including herself.
Purpose: Everyone thinks she is a lamb to be slaughtered, an abandoned piece on the chessboard of power. Little did he know, she was the one who overturned the chessboard. She doesn't love anyone, she only loves the security that power brings.