The cool-headed, clever heroine and the dark, calculating, devoted prince, with the male mistress rising to the top.
Everyone knows that the wife of the Marquis of Shunchang is virtuous and gracious, but few know that she has a close relationship with the Prince of Pingyang, whose power holds sway over the court...
Qin Huaisu is inexplicably ordered to marry into the Marquis of Shunchang’s household, becoming its mistress.
On their wedding day, her husband leaves for the distant frontier, claiming an imminent war will keep him away for three years.
Three years later, he returns with another woman and demands that she be made his co-wife.
To take everything Qin Huaisu has, the Zhao family uses every sort of scheme to seize the Liuqian Pavilion from her and have her cast aside.
Those were the darkest days of Qin Huaisu’s life. Penniless and hated by everyone, she was like a rat scurrying across the street.
Everyone thinks she’ll meet her end, but then news arrives that someone has made a comeback.
What’s more, word has it that the calculating prince follows that poor woman around every day:
“Huaisu, be careful. Better wait for me to do it.”
“Huaisu, are your shoulders sore? Let me massage them for you.”
