Spring in the Jade Courtyard

In her previous life, Chu Yu spent her entire life as a virtuous wife and loving mother. Only on her deathbed did she learn that the son she had raised with all her heart and soul was actually the child her husband had conceived in an affair!

Meanwhile, the child she had carried for ten months and nearly died giving birth to was sent out of the Xie residence on the night he was born, left to wander far from home, with his fate unknown!

When she opened her eyes again, she was back on the night the Xie residence had caught fire, three years earlier.

Flames towered and smoke choked her throat. Through the jostling crowd, she saw her husband, Xie Ze, carry another woman out of the residence. He fussed over her and sent for a doctor, entirely forgetting that his officially wedded wife was still inside.

From that moment on, Chu Yu vowed not to repeat the mistakes of her previous life. All she wanted was to find the child she had lost five years ago, then divorce Xie Ze and leave the troubles behind so they could each live in peace.

But five years had passed, and layer upon layer of details had been obscured. How could she possibly uncover the truth?

Just then, her younger brother was framed and implicated in a major imperial examination fraud case. He was thrown into the imperial prison, his life hanging in the balance.

With nowhere else to turn, Chu Yu knocked on the gates of Prince Yan’s residence in the dead of night.

Rong Jin, Prince of Yan, was the prince whose marriage proposal her father had once rejected. Now he wielded great power and was a leading candidate for the throne. He was also her last hope of salvation.

That day, Rong Jin looked at the token she offered him, his expression cool and unreadable. “If you ask me to do something, you’ll have to pay a price.”

Chu Yu knelt on the ground, tears in her eyes and her voice trembling. “As long as you can save my younger brother’s life, I... will submit to Your Highness’s judgment.”

The man fell silent for a long while. Then he suddenly braced one hand against the door, trapping her in the narrow space between them.

“This is the path you chose. Don’t regret it.”