Female lead's blurb:
Jiang Fubai has no idea what love is, because no one ever taught her. The emperor was a womanizer with many children, and her mother died young in the Cold Palace, reduced to a handful of yellow earth. From childhood, Jiang Fubai had no one to protect her and suffered endless bullying.
From a young age, she knew that only power could keep her alive. So she struggled to survive, enduring everything in silence. In ten years, she rose from an abandoned princess ignored in the Cold Palace of the old dynasty to the new dynasty's formidable Grand Princess Regent.
Once, a court official publicly denounced her for persecuting loyal subjects and usurping power as a woman. Jiang Fubai sat in her lofty seat, smiled calmly, and said nothing.
Three days later, the official petitioned to retire, then moved his entire family away from the capital to guard the frontier.
The court was shaken, and everyone feared for their safety. There was no one in the capital who had not heard of the Grand Princess's reputation.
Years later, when Jiang Fubai looked back, she thought the reason she had remained entangled with Qi Zihuai for so long was probably that even someone like her had once yearned for a life as pure and flawless as his. Qi Zihuai was one of the few sources of tenderness and kindness she had left. She could not bear to let go, and over time, he became an obsession in her heart.
Other characters' blurbs:
Qi Zihuai: I thought I had never loved her, that all I had left was a sense of duty. I never imagined that the bond between us would become so deep.
Pei Jue: Everyone knows she is wicked, yet no one understands her pain.
Content warnings:
1. The female lead is flawed.
2. One-on-one romance, with a single male lead.
Theme: Love
Qi Zihuai! You caught the wrong wife!