On the birthday of Hairpin, his life will be ruined. Princess Mingzhao, Jiang Suiwan, became an abandoned child of the royal family. Because of the imperial preceptor's words of "disrupting the country", her engagement was annulled and her salary was cut off. She was forced to marry far away and marry herself, or to marry herself in a hurry. Unwilling to be reduced to a pawn in the court and allowed to be manipulated by others, she gambled what was left of her dignity and chose Xie Yanshu, a down-and-out scholar who lived in the mansion, and they became a fake couple with a contract.
The princess has connections and understands people's hearts, while the scholar is good at strategy and business. The two of them join forces and start from a small stall. They overcome the difficulties of the powerful and the clan's schemes step by step. They rise against the trend in the business world of the capital and create a world. Living together day and night, calculations breed warmth, and pretense gradually turns into truth. They are each other's weakness and armor.
But no one knew that the Wen Run scholar was the enemy's top craftsman, He Ying, dormant beside her, just to steal the border defense map and overthrow Dasheng. When the mission comes to an end and the truth is revealed, all the warmth is shattered, and the righteousness of family and country confronts deep-rooted personal feelings. The chess game is reversed, the prey has been caged early, and the chess player is deeply in love. A love-hate entanglement and power-strategy game between love and death begins here.
Intention: Resist fate, self-salvation