In the late spring of the twenty-seventh year of Yong'an, Su Ruan, the legitimate daughter of the Su family, married Shili Hongzhuang to Lu Jingyao, the prince of the Marquis of Jing'an, with full hopes of peace and stability in the future.
At the wedding banquet, Xie Qingyan, the first minister of the dynasty, raised a glass of congratulations. Everyone praised him for his gentleness and good conduct. No one knew that beneath this elegant skin, there was five years of bone-crushing paranoia hidden inside.
He carefully laid a trap to overthrow the Marquis of Jing'an Mansion, and Lu Jingyao was wrongly imprisoned. Su Ruan was in a desperate situation, and Xie Qingyan reached out to her at the right time and connected her to the Xie Mansion. It's called shelter, but it's actually a golden cage built by one's own hands.
Warmth is disguise, confinement is the truth.
Nights of restrained embraces and lingering come again and again. In the name of love, he locked her to his side; she was trapped in a small courtyard, and the blood feud and uncontrollable throbbing tore at her heart day and night.
Her best friend Su Wanyue was not afraid of risks and ran around to find a way out for her; her confidant Wen Jingci was compassionate and silently gave her a moment of comfort, but the two still could not break the love web woven by Xie Qingyan.
The truth was torn apart layer by layer, and Lu Jingyao died unjustly after suffering all kinds of hardships. All the frivolous and tender feelings in the past have turned into sharp blades, and Su Ruan finally sees through that this passionate love has been threatening destruction since its birth.
After many entanglements of love and hate, she was physically and mentally exhausted, and she ended up without any heirs to tie her down.
By the time Xie Qingyan relinquished his power, lowered his body and bowed his head to atone for his sins, the danger could no longer be eliminated.
Su Ruan bid farewell to his hometown in Beijing and embarked on a journey alone, searching for his own new life in thousands of miles of mountains and rivers.
Trapped in his past sins and endless regrets, Xie Qingyan could only look at each other from afar and never get what he wanted for the rest of his life.
