The emperor once told her, "To protect the realm, you must see its people." But Jing Yu had been the Grand Princess for twenty-eight years and had never once been allowed to leave the Ninefold Palace, much less see the countless people of the world. As she lay dying, Jing Yu thought back on how most of her life had been spent outwitting a bunch of old men. What a waste. She should have kept a few more handsome companions. It wasn't as if a few extra impeachment memorials would matter.
When she opened her eyes again, someone had just pulled her out of a lake. In a daze, Jing Yu heard people around her shouting that the murderer had finally been caught. She struggled to lift her head, and in the midst of the bustling crowd saw a graceful, refined figure. Even in the middle of the city, he seemed untouched by worldly dust, like an immortal banished to the mortal realm. Jing Yu knew him: the scion of a prestigious clan, the unanimously recognized next head of the Cui family, Cui Heng, the seventh young master of the Cui clan. She stared into his handsome eyes. Her last thought before passing out was that no wonder those noblewomen and old ladies were always coming to her to ask for marriage arrangements.
Cui Heng was ordered to travel to Jiangnan to investigate a case. Passing through a small county town, he happened to catch sight of a pair of bright black eyes. He never expected to travel all that way with a young woman called A Yu, much less that after meeting her, he would no longer be worthy of the words "graceful and composed."
Jing Yu: For your sake, I have come to see the people.
Cui Heng: A Yu, when I see you smile, I suddenly understand what people mean when they say the mortal world is hard to escape.
Bright and free-spirited Grand Princess x refined, otherworldly top scholar
Theme: When you have the means, help the whole world
