In her past life, Lin Zhao wrongly trusted Crown Prince Ming Yu. On her twenty-sixth birthday, she drank poisoned wine, causing the entire Lin family to be falsely accused. Reborn in a single lifetime, she returned to the years after her coming of age, severed past affections, dismissed the original marriage arrangement, and chose the First Prince Ming Jing, whom the world rumored to be cold-tempered and physically flawed. She originally thought this was merely an expedient marriage to protect her family, but unexpectedly learned that the person who once risked his life to protect her in her youth and left behind half a residual jade pendant was none old other than Ming Jing. Old grievances within the palace walls entangled, and border warfare flared up once more. In this lifetime, she refuses to be reduced to a pawn manipulated by others, determined to take charge and break the game, joining hands side by side with Ming Jing to reverse the tragedy of her family's destruction in the previous life.