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Cheng Jinsi woke up choked by the fragrance of locust flowers and found herself huddled in a carriage heading to the countryside - she was thirteen years old and had not yet met the terrible Marquis of Yichang, nor had she tasted the poisonous soup. Isn't that "Mr. Shen" who was covering his shoulders and coughing in the corridor the same Marquis Chang Yue who later stabbed people without blinking an eye? She gave him a candied fruit in her previous life, and he gave her a rebirth in return. This account must be settled carefully. She avoided the engagement in her previous life and relied on her memory to help the Cheng family avoid the trap. She turned around and saw Shen Yan holding up the orchid grass handkerchief she had embroidered back then. Her dark eyes were as bright as if they were hiding stars: "Miss Cheng, the plums are ripe." Unexpectedly, this cold-faced Marquis turned out to be a sultry man. While pursuing the murderer and investigating the case with a knife, he secretly retrieved Bu Yao, who had been robbed in her previous life, and insisted that he "picked it up by chance." Later, when the red candle was shining brightly, Shen Yan held her hand and pressed it against his heart: "In this life, you will be in charge of the knife." What is grinded in the inkstone is the care of two lives, and what is written in the brocade book is the inseparability of life and death. From the candied fruits under the locust tree to the promises in red makeup, this pair of happy enemies finally turned the bitterness of their previous life into the sweetness of this life.

A tragedy at the Nanyuan Palace fifteen years ago triggered another generation of chaos. Yu Changgeng endured humiliation and hibernated and worked hard for many years, even at the cost of losing his life, just to investigate the tragedy of King Nanyuan back then. The journey of the story begins in Shangqingtang on a dark and windy rainy night. Here, I got acquainted with Chu Huaifang for the first time, and then had the experience of life and death together...