Spring in the Jade Hall

Chu Yingyue, daughter of the Vice Minister of Revenue, had skin as soft as snow and a graceful, delicate beauty. Betrothed since childhood to Rong Mo, known as the "Jade of the Capital," they were a couple everyone envied.

Rong Mo was sent away to take up an official post, and the two agreed that he would return to marry her in three years. Unexpectedly, in the second month after he left, word arrived that Chu Yingyue had broken off their engagement and promised herself to someone else.

Rong Mo raced back to the capital. In a crowded street, he saw with his own eyes Chu Yingyue nestled limply in Prince Qi's arms inside an ornate, brocade-decked carriage.

Only then did Rong Mo understand that deep affection could never stand against power. Even a woman as breathtakingly beautiful as Chu Yingyue was no exception.

Three years passed in the blink of an eye. The Chu family was implicated in Prince Qi's embezzlement case. The men were exiled, and the women were sent to the music bureau. The once-noble daughter of the Chu family, bright as the moon, had become a courtesan anyone could bully.

She still remembered that night, when heavy snow was falling. Wearing a thin, gaudy gauze dress, she crossed a stone bridge dusted with snow, barefoot.

"The man inside is a favorite at court, with power to spare. If you make him happy, why worry about having no one to protect you?" The madam coaxed her as she pushed her into the room.

In the bright lamplight, the man writing at the desk looked up. It was Rong Mo, recently transferred back to the capital from his post and appointed Minister of the Court of Judicial Review.

With tears streaming down her face, Chu Yingyue was forced step by step into a corner. He lifted her snow-white chin and sneered down at her. "When you broke off our engagement back then, did you ever imagine this day would come?"

One-on-one angsty romance, angsty romance. It may not be sweet.

Another story of the male lead having to win her back. The male lead will not be replaced.

Theme: Love can overcome every hardship