Yan Yi was reborn to a time before her master had passed away. By her master's orders, she took the young master and fled to safety. As they were preparing to leave the trouble behind and live under assumed names, Yan Yi happened to pick up a boy who had been beaten half to death. And so, she was forced into a life raising children, and ended up with two of them.
Just as the three of them had gotten used to their life of farming, the young master's birth father came looking for them and had all three taken to the frontier. Yan Yi was forced into army life, and along the way she accidentally discovered that the boy she'd saved was the illegitimate son of a general from a neighboring kingdom... Even more unexpected, this dark lotus swaying in the wind had developed feelings for her after she put him through the wringer. Oh dear, she'd really gone too far, Yan Yi thought.
Her life was becoming more and more colorful.
Side story: When she was young, Princess Jin had been in love with a dashing, spirited great general of the Feng Dynasty. After they secretly conceived a child, her parents forced her to marry Prince Jin without her knowledge. Prince Jin was a petty man who only knew how to seize power, but lacked the brains to scheme effectively.
To keep her family from being dragged down by Prince Jin, she had him killed. She thought she'd spend the rest of her life alone, forced to watch her great general marry and have children. But unexpectedly, the great general rebelled.
She was forced to play the role of a beautiful temptress who brought a kingdom to ruin.
