Song Xian is the most proper young lady in all of Jinling, and everyone says she is destined to be empress.
But just as she is about to become Crown Princess, she suddenly goes blind.
An imperial decree sends her tumbling from the clouds to the bitterly cold northern frontier, where she is married to the Seventh Prince, Zhao Yi, who is forbidden to return to the capital without an imperial order.
What she does not know is that Zhao Yi fell in love with her at first sight long ago. One of them faces death without fear, while the other is overjoyed.
After their wedding, Zhao Yi teaches her to use a knife, rigs her pipa with hidden mechanisms, and leads her beyond the constraints of propriety.
She thinks this is what her life will be like forever.
Until the Second Prince rebels and Zhao Yi is thrust onto the throne.
The child she bears is poisoned without warning.
She fakes her death and escapes, pursuing the culprit with all her might and swearing to kill them with her own hands.
But she does not know that the man in the palace has gone half-gray after her "death."
[From a Glimpse Over the Garden Wall to Sharing Life and Death]
Theme: Even when hemmed in by high walls, one should break free and forge one's own path.
