After Shen Xi accidentally fell and hit her head, she woke up having forgotten everything. The only thing she remembered was a jade pendant, one her beloved always carried with him.
She searched for days, and at last spotted the pendant on a beggar.
When the emperor bestowed a marriage upon her, Shen Xi was overjoyed to finally wed the man she loved. They were inseparable for a time, until one day Shen Xi accidentally fell into the water and hit her head. She remembered what had happened before, and was overcome with shame. She had mistaken someone else for the man she loved!
Anxious and terrified, Shen Xi left a letter of separation and fled in the middle of the night.
But luck was not on her side. Hoping to hide out in Jiangnan, she somehow ended up as a maid in the neighboring kingdom's palace.
At a palace banquet, Shen Xi stood behind the Noble Consort and served her. Then she saw the Crown Prince, who had suddenly returned despite everyone thinking him dead. He looked exactly like her former husband...
After the banquet, Shen Xi fled in a panic, desperate to escape. But a tall figure blocked her in a dim palace passageway. A cool, noble voice weighed down from above, icy to the bone: "You left a letter of separation and disappeared without a word. Do you have nothing to say to me, wife?"
Overnight, a young palace maid vanished under mysterious circumstances. Everyone assumed she had offended some powerful person and been left without a trace.
No one knew that, deep in the Eastern Palace, a man was closing in on her step by step, his presence oppressive.
As the man drew ever closer, Shen Xi's fingertips turned cold and her heart trembled. After a long silence, she finally summoned the courage to say, "I was in the wrong first. If you're going to kill me or punish me, just get it over with."
The man wrapped an arm around the beauty's slender waist and stared into her eyes, gritting his teeth. "Shen Xi, do you even have a heart?!"
[Side Story]
Ye Ke was firmly convinced that women were troublesome and heartless. He kept Shen Xi by his side only to get revenge and make her regret playing with his feelings.
He had even resolved never to touch her again for the rest of his life.
But one moment he was furiously punishing her by making her brew tea, and the next Shen Xi had merely scalded her finger. Before he could think it through, his body had already taken over, holding the beauty's slender jade finger as he asked with a frown, "Where did you burn yourself?"
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