Ji Yuan was abandoned at birth.
The day her biological parents brought her back to the manor, everyone in the Jiang family sized up the Fifth Miss who had been brought home with blood running down her face.
From then on, Ji Yuan became Jiang Dai, the Jiang family’s gentle, timid Fifth Miss.
But behind the scenes, Jiang Dai’s palm was like a vast net, its threads tightening around the filthy, tangled relationships that could never be brought to light.
She wanted to go after no one. All she wanted was to reunite with her adoptive mother someday, and to find the person who had left without a word all those years ago.
But nothing ever went as she wished. The emperor valued beauty, while the prime minister valued profit.
Under the crushing blow, Jiang Dai fainted.
When she awoke, she met someone who looked so much like a person from her past… an old acquaintance.
It was the Third Prince, Pei Shaoqing, who had been brought back to the capital after spending years as a hostage in Wuling.
He smiled and offered to work with her, promising to present a pledge of loyalty that would satisfy her.
Half believing him, she pushed open the gates of her home
and found the Jiang family, a house famed as a noble clan, in such disarray that it had become “utterly disgraceful,” in her own words.
In public, Jiang Dai was docile, like a vase, while Pei Shaoqing seemed so innocent he might as well have had no brains.
In private, Jiang Dai was the one most eager to seize power, and Pei Shaoqing was the sharpest blade at her side.
Jiang Dai sought power; Pei Shaoqing sought love.
But in the end, they would return to where they began, to their point of origin.
Theme: Always strive to improve.
