She is the princess of the Xia Kingdom, born with the Mandate of Heaven and heir to the nation’s dragon vein. Noble in status, she is peerlessly beautiful.
Yet no one knows that her father is cold and heartless, the Imperial Consort is ruthless, her younger sister is vicious and spiteful, and her younger brother is plotting to seize the position of Crown Prince...
He is the heir of the Chu Kingdom, blessed with an otherworldly appearance and a talent for governing the world. Calm and composed, he is unmatched beneath the heavens.
Yet though he is a prince of the royal house, he is cruelly ostracized and can only flee to another kingdom, where he becomes a hostage.
Within the imperial palace, she laughs as she carefully navigates one danger after another, hoping only to protect her little brother and help him ascend the throne.
In a foreign land, he stirs the political waters with a mind of unfathomable complexity. He calculates people’s hearts and the tides of power, leaving nothing to chance and no strategy unplanned. With a smile and a few words, he commands the situation and lays waste to a city from a thousand miles away.
When he meets her, will he be a lamb walking into a tiger’s den, or will they join forces as equals?
He offers her an empire as his betrothal gift and asks for her hand. He thought it would be nothing more than a political transaction, but no one knows that he stirred up chaos and ignited a war, bringing an entire kingdom into battle and leaving the land strewn with corpses, all just to tell her: “Yun Xi, from now on, I’ll protect you...”
The world says the heir has calculated every possibility, and surely intends to claim the entire world.
He only smiles faintly. “The world is too vast, and the universe too boundless. It’s enough that I’ve deceived just one person: her.”
Since he has decided to deceive her, he will keep it up for a lifetime, fooling her forever, until she loves no one but him for all her days!