Mu Qinghan, a gentle and refined legitimate daughter from Jiangnan, volunteers to marry into the cold, ruthless Northern Marquis's estate to save her condemned and collapsing family. A single contract secures her family's safety. She believes the marriage is nothing but a cold transaction, so she proceeds cautiously and keeps her guard up at every turn. She does not know that Fang Yuchen, the Northern Marquis who has conquered the world through force, has been laying out a web of devotion for her for years. What began in scheming draws them deep into tenderness, then leads them to the fate of their country. Two people burdened by secrets and shackles save each other amid a whirlpool of power struggles, weather the storms of the mortal world, and spend the rest of their lives together, guarding their land.
