The Scheming Beauty

A scheming, revenge-driven heroine who plays the fool to catch the tiger versus an arrogant, cold-blooded power-seeking ministerial hero

Playing the fool to catch the tiger | Taking by force | The heroine chases him after he regrets it | Face-slapping power fantasy | A scheming heroine's rise | The powerful minister grovels at her feet

Once the orphaned daughter of a fallen chancellor's family, Yun Jingxue is sickly and frail. Everyone thinks she's a helpless, defenseless flower, someone who only wants to live in peace and protect her grandmother.

They don't know she's an heir to a reclusive family of master physicians and poisoners, with a brilliant mind and unfathomable schemes. Her frailty is all an act. She plans every step for the sake of a blood feud, vowing to rise to power and make every enemy pay.

Bai Juechen, the Marquis of Zhenbei, made his name as a youth and commands a powerful army. Arrogant and cold, he looks down on everyone and respects only the strong. When he first meets Yun Jingxue, he takes her for a useless woman fishing for sympathy, tramples on her without restraint, and treats her with contempt.

Drawn to the sharpness she keeps hidden, he becomes obsessed and forcibly imprisons her by his side, hoping to keep this seemingly delicate flower in his grasp and make her his possession.

But he never knows that the person in his grasp isn't a meek white rabbit, but a ruthless, scheming woman.

She uses the marquis's power to set her plans in motion, and with her unmatched mastery of medicine and poison, stirs up the capital. She saves him from danger time and again. When she sheds her mask of frailty and reveals her sharpness, he is stunned and falls for her.

When the truth comes to light, he finally realizes that she has been playing him from beginning to end. The contempt he once showed her leaves him filled with regret.

The invincible Marquis of Zhenbei willingly casts aside all his pride and sacrifices his military authority. He kneels before everyone, humbly pursuing her and bowing to her as his master.

"Jingxue, I was wrong. I'll give you anything you want. Just please don't leave me."

She watches coldly as the once high-and-mighty minister becomes a man at her feet, savoring the rush of revenge.

Theme: The one I love lies beyond mountains and seas, and the mountains and seas cannot be crossed