Sharing Sin with You

Shen Qinghuan died on her wedding night, a pair of golden scissors cutting through the deception of a childhood sweetheart.

She crawled out from among the corpses, with no pain in her heart and no heartbeat. After carving away her old face, she took the name Lu Shangci. Revenge was all that remained of her life.

Xiao Yanqing guarded the frontier for eight years, earning countless military honors. His mother was buried in a sea of flames, leaving behind a final warning like a curse: "The blade of a loved one cuts deepest." When he returned to the capital, his power was stripped away and he was forced into marriage, surrounded by spies even at his bedside. On a snowy night, he rescued a mysterious woman. Carrying his mother's keepsake, she proposed a deal: "Your Highness needs a blade to cut through your chains. I need the position of the Jingbei King's secondary consort. We each get what we need. It's only fair."

And so a marriage born of mutual interest was sealed.

She stirred the court's turbulent waters for him, while he allowed her to settle her blood feud in secret. He watched coolly as she advanced step by step, yet became captivated by the lonely flame in her eyes, one born of the same source as his own. She held fast to their vow not to fall in love, until the fragile moment when he mourned his mother, and she heard the first unfamiliar flutter in her silent heart.

On the night flames illuminated the dragon throne, the direction of the swords she and he pointed at last became one. It turned out that this marriage, which began as a scheme, was itself the deepest trap laid for each other by two lonely souls.