Four great clans rule the capital, their power reaching as high as the heavens. The Shi family stands at the very top.
When Cheng Ran was in her teens, her beauty and precociousness earned her a place in the Shi family's "reserve pool," where she studied every day to become the future female assistant to the Shi heir. If she was lucky enough to win his favor, she could become his concubine and bear many children for the Shi family.
She struggled to escape those dark, sunless days.
Years later, she met a man who made her heart flutter. Only later did she discover that he was the very person she had wanted to escape forever just a few years earlier.
Faced with Shi Yan's advances, his intimacy, and finally his threats and inducements, as he stopped at nothing to get what he wanted, she fled again and again, only to fail each time, until she was locked by his side forever.
