[Adorable babies from the heavens + hearing inner thoughts + groveling redemption + two formidable leads + wild imagination]
Guan Wen Yuan, the legitimate daughter of the General’s Mansion, had been frail and sickly since childhood. She was forced to bind herself to a future as empress.
At her engagement banquet, two adorable children who called her “Mother” saved her from danger, and even claimed that the Assistant Minister of the Court of Judicial Review was their father.
What?
She became a mother without having to give birth, and the children’s father was her father’s political rival!
Heaven was out to get her!
To save her father and investigate the culprit, she had no choice but to seek help from Cui Jingming, her sworn enemy in the Ministry of Justice, and join forces with him.
But then war broke out, and her father, the commander-in-chief, was critically wounded. Guan Wen Yuan resolved to enter the Eastern Palace.
At the palace banquet, the princes and young noblemen competed to show off their talents, but the cool, powerful official lured her into his trap step by step.
He wound his fingers around the jade pendant she had tied for him herself and said gently, “A Yuan said she admired me deeply and wanted us to spend our days and nights together… Why marry someone else?”
Looking at the handsome man before her, Guan Wen Yuan remembered the trembling sword scabbard that night. “At midnight last night… he stroked your portrait thirty-seven times…”
A frail, scheming black lotus who toys with people’s hearts × an upright, restrained power broker with hidden obsessive tendencies
