Spring Never Comes to the Imperial Terrace

[Cold and ruthless princess regent x obsessive, devoted little guard]

Chu Jingchun, the emperor's youngest daughter, is born under an ill omen and abandoned in the wilderness.

Luckily, she meets a wandering swordsman, who mends her tattered clothes and teaches her martial arts. But when she comes of age, he breaks into her room.

Chu Jingchun no longer believes in kindness in this world. She kills the swordsman, conceals her identity, changes her name, and becomes the most difficult courtesan to win over at Chunhe House.

From then on, merchants, commoners, noblemen, and princes all covet her, and she turns every one of them into a piece on her chessboard.

If you're so afraid the realm will fall into chaos, then I'll make sure it does.

Much later, someone sees the powerful princess regent, who controls the court, and realizes she has the same face as the former courtesan.

[She once struggled amid mountains of corpses, and she has also crushed someone else's chance to live with her own hands.]

Inside the curtains, a man attends to her.

Wen Jian stands guard outside with a sword in his arms. When the man stumbles out in disarray, Wen Jian kills him with a single stroke, then bows and says, "He was too weak to attend to the princess regent."

The curtain lifts, revealing a lazy, cold-hearted face. "Why don't you do it?"

Wen Jian retreats in alarm, the sword in his hand humming softly.

Theme: Never give up, even in the depths of despair