Cold and indifferent young lady x devoted, time-rewinding imperial preceptor
Across the land of Qi, treacherous ministers hold sway. Beneath the calm surface, undercurrents stir.
Ever since Shi Yu could remember, the Marquis of Shi'an's household had believed in the survival of the fittest: the strong rule, and the weak are cast aside.
Caught in the game of power, she has watched one person after another meet a tragic end. She knows that if she refuses to obey her father's wishes, or if she is no longer useful to him, then this game has only one possible outcome: checkmate.
She swears she won't end up like them. She must become strong enough, and gather every means of protecting herself she can. She waits for the right moment, the moment she can overturn this game. Fortunately, that moment finally comes...
She is the daughter most like her father, so naturally, she should use the methods most like his to push him toward the ending she has carefully prepared for him. He will die in agony, just like her elder sister, whom he killed when she was young.
Shen Qianzhi has relived time again and again in search of the truth behind his mother's death. Strangely, every time he gets close to the truth, someone tries to assassinate him. And after he dies, he returns to the past once more.
Even stranger, his identity, status, and background are a little different each time. Unable to find a way out of this dead end, he finally meets again, on his hundredth return, the woman he fell for and was once betrothed to, but had repeatedly missed in previous lives. At last, he finds a way forward...
Theme: On his hundredth return, he won her favor.
