When Yan Shu was thirteen, her father died on the battlefield. At his funeral, the emperor noticed her mother among the mourners and took her into his harem.
Yan Shu thus followed her mother into the palace, becoming the Seventh Princess in name only.
After entering the palace, her mother was miserable every day and passed away before long.
Yan Shu's life in the palace was especially difficult. Not long after she came of age, the emperor sent her to the northern frontier to marry for peace. She suffered endless humiliation and died bearing a grudge.
Only as she lay dying did she learn that the Great Wei had fallen into civil strife. The Sixth Prince, the son of a disgraced consort who had never been favored by the emperor, had killed his father and brothers and ultimately seized the throne.
Reborn, she returned to the year she had entered the palace with her mother.
Her mother was still alive, and she had yet to be sent to the northern frontier to marry for peace. There was still time to change everything.
To alter the fate she had suffered in her previous life, Yan Shu turned her attention to Shen Qingyan, the then-obscure Sixth Prince.
Shen Qingyan was seventeen, gloomy, cold, and ruthless.
Yan Shu took the initiative to approach him, bringing him clothes and food and helping him when others bullied him.
Though Shen Qingyan was cold by nature, she still managed to move him. The two siblings depended on each other and endured the difficult days in the palace together.
Later, the emperor again issued an order for Yan Shu to go to the northern frontier to marry for peace.
This time, Shen Qingyan launched a coup ahead of schedule and seized the throne.
Overnight, Yan Shu's circumstances changed completely. From a bastard child in everyone's eyes, she became the current emperor's cherished younger sister.
From then on, no one in the palace or the court dared bully her with impunity.
With the burden finally lifted from her heart, Yan Shu decided to honor her mother's wishes and marry a virtuous, upright man, living a peaceful life.
However, a few months before the wedding, someone secretly sabotaged the marriage, and it ultimately fell through.
Only after investigating did Yan Shu discover that Shen Qingyan had been the one behind it.
After learning the truth, Yan Shu shut herself away and refused to see him. For the first time, discord arose between the siblings.
That night, Shen Qingyan quietly entered her bedchamber, his expression unreadable. "Little sister, be my empress and stay by my side for the rest of our lives. Will you?"
They are fake siblings, with no blood relation.
Theme: Love can overcome anything
