Only on her deathbed did Zhao Lingshang realize that she was born unlucky and fated to suffer. No matter what she did, she could never escape her wretched fate.
Her eldest brother offered her to the Crown Prince as a show of allegiance. Before she could even be betrothed, the sickly Crown Prince breathed his last.
Her second brother went to great lengths to help her win the affections of the Prince of Ling's eldest son. Less than three months later, the Prince of Ling launched an unsuccessful rebellion and was executed at Jiuyun Terrace.
To keep out of trouble, her father suggested that she marry a civil official instead. The very next day, that official was discussing ritual propriety at court when His Majesty the Emperor had him beaten with two hundred strokes as a warning to others.
Zhao Lingshang simply couldn't accept it. She volunteered to take her younger half-sister's place in the palace selection, hoping to try her luck at court. Who could have guessed that even His Majesty the Emperor, the Son of Heaven himself, wouldn't survive?
Zhao Lingshang's decree naming her a consort had barely been warmed in her hands before she was dragged off to join him in death.
Reborn into another life, Zhao Lingshang was tired of struggling and bowed to fate.
My fate is in Heaven's hands, not mine. I was born a calamity, and everyone who gets close to me meets with misfortune.
A lecher lusts after her beauty when they cross paths. Zhao Lingshang takes the initiative, but before she can get in a few words, his carriage runs out of control and breaks his leg.
One of her father's former students pretends to fall in love with her at first sight. Zhao Lingshang reluctantly plays along for a few rounds, but before the year is out, the man is demoted again and again and exiled to Lingnan.
Zhao Lingshang: I told you all to stay away from me.
Her father, the Marquis of Yongjia, often sighs and laments. He has heard a fortune-teller predict that Zhao Lingshang is blessed with such great fortune that only someone with an ironclad fate could stand as her equal.
When it comes to an ironclad fate, who in the court doesn't know young Prince Jinping, Mu Jingbei, a born killing general cursed with the star of solitude?
Zhao Lingshang and Mu Jingbei: Time to see whose fate is harder.
Theme: Uphold the righteous spirit of Heaven and Earth, and establish their majesty and dignity.
