She is the Eldest Princess Yongde of the Southern Dynasty, living in secret while burdened with the heavy crime of treason; having burned away her past, her hair turned white in a single night. He is the Regent of the Northern Dynasty, a man of deep foresight and great strategy, who views crushing the Southern Dynasty under his iron hooves as his natural mission. When they meet, what he perceives as a fleeting romantic affair is, in reality, a chess match she has meticulously planned.
Transforming into an enchanting and mysterious goddess of vengeance, she lures him into her trap, only for her murderous intent to be seen through. She saves his rebellious only son, becomes his concubine, and conceives his children three times, yet she is eventually confined by him in the empty palace of the Jade Terrace. It was always a romance struggling to survive beneath the weight of political artifice. The simple stability that an ordinary woman could easily grasp is something she spends her entire life pursuing, only to find it is nothing more than a fleeting illusion.
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