When Wei Xuan was five, his usually gentle father suddenly changed his face. It was the first time he had ever been made to kneel. A biting wind blew past, cold to the bone. His mother, too, became taciturn, especially toward him.
Later, he accidentally learned that he was born of his mother's illicit affair with a madman. He decided to hide his feelings and take revenge in secret. He poisoned his younger half-brother, later exiled his full brother after becoming emperor, buried his wife, who had died for her country, in a hasty funeral, drove his adoptive father to his death, and put his birth mother under house arrest.
To Wei Xuan, Yu Qiuyue was nothing more than a weapon for revenge. He coveted her family's influence, so he carefully set up an elaborate game and waited for the beauty to fall into his trap. Unfortunately, she had been abandoned by someone and didn't believe in anything so glitzy and hollow. During the days when he pretended to love her, he gradually fell for Qiuyue.
He fell in love with Qiuyue far too late. Disgusted by Wei Xuan's actions, Yu Qiuyue left home and was captured by the Xiongnu Chanyu. Later, when the two nations went to war, she died before Wei Xuan's eyes while saving a hundred thousand soldiers from falling into a maze formation.
Theme: You try so hard to pretend to love me, and it's revolting
