Fang Liang is an utterly ordinary young lady from a wealthy family, and her father is merely an utterly ordinary first-rank general. Fang Liang once said that she wished only to remain unmarried all her life, stay by her father's side, fulfill her filial duty, and then retire to the mountains. Yet the young masters of the capital and the nobles of the palace all dream of marrying the general's daughter. Why, no one knows, nor whether their feelings are sincere or false.
A beloved heroine whose greatest dream is to die peacefully devotes herself to escaping a crowd of men with ulterior motives... Yet among them, four men are truly sincere:
The all-powerful chancellor is willing to give up every position and privilege for her and retire to Jiangnan.
A blunt-tongued assassin who hides his concern behind a cold exterior disguises himself as her bodyguard, saving her from danger time and again. Though he knows that falling in love will mean his death, he cannot help himself.
Her taciturn “older brother” harbors feelings he cannot put into words, quietly planning her future.
The calculating “crown prince of an enemy nation” spent seventeen years setting his plan in motion, but when she appeared, he would rather overturn it all. The man who feared death more than anyone else left her the only way to survive.
Choosing a good man should be enough; living in peace should be enough. But things never go as one wishes. At the temple, a venerable monk picked up a fortune stick and gave her these twelve words: “Lies exposed, loved ones dead. Where will you go?”
Fang Liang has no dream of being a hero. There are simply too many people in this world she must kill, and too many things she must prove.
[Four male leads, with separate endings]