Episode 1: Shen Xihe was killed by a rebel slave and almost died

In the cold and snowy depths of winter, the battle between the Gu and Fan clans finally came to an end. The entire Gu family was defeated and sentenced to beheading. The King of Letters, Xiao Changqing, personally came to the execution ground to supervise the beheading.Gu Qingzhi, the eldest daughter of the Gu family and the current princess of the dynasty, became the only survivor. She refused to live in this world, drank strong poison and decided to follow her clan members. When she opened her eyes again, she fell into a hazy fantasy.At the same time, Shen Xi, the princess of Zhaoning County in the northwest, and her maid Linglong took a boat to Beijing to celebrate the Queen Mother's birthday. This trip also concealed the Queen Mother's arrangement for her marriage. Unexpectedly, Linglong suddenly attacked late at night and pushed her into an abyss. In her sinking consciousness, she met Gu Qingzhi from a distance in an illusion.

On the offshore sea where the night waves were surging, Tianyuan, the servant of the prince, sternly ordered the pirates to hand over the most precious immortal ribbon. Seeing that the prince Xiao Huayong was thin and frail, these gangsters did not take him seriously at all.But they didn't know that Xiao Huayong was a secretly top master. In just a few moves, he sent the pirates fleeing. He jumped into the cold waves to retrieve the treasure and accidentally rescued Shen Xihe who was drifting here. He caught a glimpse of the general's jade pendant around her waist and recognized her identity. He left the immortal ribbon beside her and turned around quietly to leave.The guards of the Princess Mansion searched along the waterway for many days and finally found Shen Xihe who was unconscious by the shoal.

When Gu Qingzhi returned to consciousness, she was shocked to realize that she was actually living in Shen Xihe's body. When she looked up, she recognized Shen Xihe's personal maid Pearl and bodyguard Mo Yu. They were guarding the bedside with anxious and worried faces.Mo Yu explained in detail the ins and outs of the attack on his way to Beijing. Gu Qingzhi integrated all of Shen Xihe's memories, then turned cold and ordered the elites in the mansion to hunt down the traitor Linglong.Tianyuan, a close servant of the prince, has always been puzzled as to why his master would casually give away the rare treasure, the Immortal Ribbon, which he sacrificed his life to obtain, to a woman he had only met once. He had no idea that Xiao Huayong had a long-term plan in mind.

Ever since Gu Qingzhi took possession of Shen Xihe's body, she was no longer willing to accept the consequences. One day, she heard that Huang Zhongsi, the emperor's servant, was bullying a good girl again, so she immediately led people to rescue the victim and escorted Huang Zhongsi to the edge of the cliff.She smiled and thanked him for his meritorious service in escorting, and asked Mo Yu to hand over the sachet she had concocted by herself, and forced him to jump off the cliff with half-coercion. The sachet contained a special beast-attracting incense. As soon as Huangzhong Temple fell off the cliff, he was devoured by the beast that heard the sound.The accompanying eunuchs were so frightened that they knelt down and begged for mercy. Shen Xihe didn't care at all that this matter had spread to the capital. On the contrary, he wished that his reputation as being "not easy to mess with" would spread even wider.

Deep in Shen Xihe's memory, there still remains the vague outline of someone leaving a fairy ribbon that night.On this day, Xiao Huayong came to the door disguised as a wandering doctor and wanted to take back the immortal ribbon. Shen Xihe recognized his identity at a glance, but instead of returning it directly, he invited him to play a game of chess, saying that as long as he could break the chess game he had set, he would return the treasure immediately.In the end, Xiao Huayong failed to win the game, but instead became very interested in Shen Xihe's intelligence and agility. When he left, he kept clutching the unfallen chess piece in his hand, thinking about it for a long time and couldn't let it go.

Xiao Changying, the younger brother of King Xin, was ambushed in the suburbs and was seriously injured while fleeing. Shen Xihe happened to stumble upon this scene on his way to Beijing.She didn't want to get into trouble by meddling in other people's business, but Xiao Changying tried his best to throw the jade pendant he was carrying. According to the law, not helping the royal jade pendant when he saw it was in trouble was a major crime that would implicate the nine clans. She could only save Xiao Changying when he was dying.Afterwards, she ignored the precautions of men and women and treated his wounds with her own hands, boiled medicine and healed them. Xiao Changying looked at her in a daze, and a ray of affection quietly arose in his heart.

He didn't know that the elders in his family had already intended to marry Shen Xihe to him, but Shen Xihe was already dissatisfied with his father's unauthorized arrangement of marriages and made up his mind to make the final decision on his own marriage in this life.A group of concubines of high-ranking officials in Beijing are secretly controlled by a mysterious force. They hold the secret handles of the chief officials of each family, and use this to firmly control most of the situation in Beijing and the DPRK.This secret was broken by Shen tide and accidentally, and she discovered that these concubines who had been placed all carried the same special unique fragrance. In the entire capital, only the prince Xiao Huayong, who had always been sick and evasive, had never been infiltrated by this force.

At the same time, gambling houses all over Beijing opened their bets, and people placed bets on which prince Princess Zhaoning would marry in the end, but no one placed bets in the name of the prince. In desperation, Xiao Huayong could only change into casual clothes and go to the gambling houses in person to place the first bet for himself.