Deeply Knowing

"What you think is love at first sight is nothing but my carefully laid plan."

Flirtatious schemer | Palace maid rises to power | Clear-eyed surrender | Push-and-pull to the limit |

Zhi Miao has a pair of expressive eyes.

When she looks at people, they brim with tenderness. When she lowers her gaze, she looks heartbreakingly vulnerable. She is a rare, peerlessly beautiful woman.

She's also skilled at reading people and calculating her moves, becoming the most favored maid by the eldest princess within a year.

But her ambitions reach far beyond that.

At the Shangyuan Lantern Festival, one stunning glance is all it takes for her to choose her target: she wants both that man's power and his heart.

Beneath a peach tree, she falls into the arms of a man dressed in dark robes, and with those limpid, watery eyes, catches the attention of the Crown Prince Jiang Sheng.

In his more than twenty years, Jiang Sheng has prided himself on having seen every kind of beauty and encountered countless women who threw themselves at him.

Some were charming or seductive, some innocent or bewitching, but never had he met anyone like Zhi Miao:

Her eyes are clearly full of ambition, yet she insists on acting like a rabbit who's wandered into a wolf's den.

He lets her cling to him and enjoys watching her play weak, yet when no one is around, he rubs the lip mark she left behind. "I wonder how long you can keep up the act."

He never imagined that years later, he would be the one to lose this game of romance, and the one willing to kneel and offer her an empire just to win one glance from her would still be him.

[Reading Guide]:

There is a hidden-identity plot. The heroine is career-minded and treats the male lead as prey; the male lead knowingly falls into infatuation.

Neither lead is perfect.

Domestic and palace intrigue, all in a fictional setting.

Disguised as a twisted romance, it's actually a positive story with patriotic ideals -.-

Theme: Ambition is never a dirty word