Li Tang lost her mother when she was young and kept her talents hidden for sixteen years. Only when her beloved elder sister died did she suddenly realize how foolishly wrong she had been.
In this hellish cage, gentleness is the most useless thing of all!
To advance his quest for power, her father gives her to an old prince who is paralyzed from the waist down and twisted in the head. Her stepmother, too, readily frames her for having an affair when it serves her interests.
Unwilling to become a pawn, and determined to avenge herself, she accidentally gets close to Pei Xuandu, the most powerful eunuch in all of Great Qian.
On a snowy, lonely street, she stakes everything and blocks his carriage. “I’ll trade my life for a marriage contract from the Ninth Thousand Years. Please, marry me!”
At first, he grips her chin, his voice icy. “If you want to use me as a stepping stone, you’d better prove you’re worthy.”
Later, she plots at every turn, seeking revenge for her elder sister and her birth mother.
Just as she is ready to leave and find someone to spend the rest of her life with, he pulls her into his arms, his voice choked with tears. “Little Tang’er, please don’t go...”
