The heroine Nan Wan, whose real name is Jiang Yue, was originally a beggar and an orphan girl. Because she resembled the missing seventh princess, she was brought into the palace and given the name Jin Zhi. She was greedy for a moment of warmth in the palace, practiced martial arts and read against the rules, and was well versed in political strategies. She was able to review memorials and take charge of power strategies at the age of ten. But the warmth finally shattered when the truth came to light: she was just a substitute, and the death of her adoptive mother, Concubine Si, and the abandonment of the real princess were all due to the power struggle between the emperor and the queen mother. In order to repay her kindness and revenge, she killed her enemies and pretended to be crazy to avoid trouble. However, she became an outcast in the court and was forced to go far away to get married.
In a desperate situation, she relied on a clever strategy to control floods and changed her fate, and formed a life-and-death contract with Chu Yunshen, the sinister and forbearing prime minister's legitimate son. Chu Yunshen has a family feud, and his future was stolen by his father. The two started to take advantage of him. She helped him repay his blood debt, and he helped her overthrow the court. From scheming against each other to relying on each other for life and death, they controlled the world and played chess together.
And Nan Yan, the abandoned fifth prince with silver hair, lived and died for her all his life. He is the most humble existence in the deep palace. Because of her protection, he glimpses the glimmer of light and devotes everything he has to helping her take revenge and control the flood, hiding a love that he dares not express in words. In the end, he was blood-stained in the palace to protect her, and he never got an answer until his death, which was the most sadistic feeling in the book.
The novel interweaves the mystery of the double, the revenge of the mother's murder, the struggle for military power and the overthrow of the country. There is no brainless love, only a step-by-step power plot. The fake princess burns away the decayed Phoenix Palace with a faint light, the true prince paves the way to the emperor with wisdom, and the abandoned prince gives her life in exchange for her peace. The country changes hands, the old friend sleeps forever, only the blood-stained knot of hearts locks away all the regrets in the palace.
Intention: Revenge, ancient style
