The Empress’s Dazzling Beauty

Bu Jingyan has become the laughingstock of the people of the capital.

The Prince of Jin, who was supposed to marry her, married her older sister instead. To save face, she had no choice but to marry the Prince of Qin, the Prince of Jin's younger brother: a fool with a terminal illness who had less than two years to live. No one wanted to marry a short-lived fool, but that was the reality, and no one could change it.

Bu Jingyan takes it in stride and faces life calmly. All she wants is to live freely.

But these self-important men and women keep pressuring her, again and again. Will she just sit back and let them do as they please?

Just when she thinks everything is under control, her plans go awry, and the fool everyone else looks down on turns out to be very strange.

He grabs her hand tightly and cries out with wide, innocent eyes, “I won't let go! I said I wouldn't, so I won't! You want me to escape alone and then die with him. I won't allow it!”

He ruins her plans time and again, yet repeatedly pulls her back from the brink of death. Who is he, really? There is the complicated Prince of Jin, the devoted Crown Prince Li Yue, the alluring and domineering King of the Snowlands, the melancholy Emperor Xia, and the people of Tianlin who fight for their country's survival. There are also women who fight each other to the death over men. As some fall in despair, others rise proudly to their feet...