In her previous life, Cui Baoyue was a noble empress, diligent and virtuous. After her death, she was posthumously given the title Si, yet she suffered the early death of her legitimate son, the demotion of her family, and thirty years of love and hatred entangled with Emperor Xie Zhe. Both are reborn at the moment when the crown princess is to be chosen. This time, unwilling to repeat her past mistakes, she publicly refuses to marry the crown prince. To escape the entanglements of the imperial palace, she pretends to have fallen for Prince Jin, Xie Yu, and uses the Empress Dowager's final decree as her reason to marry and move to Lingnan. Xie Zhe gets his wish and marries the woman he has always loved, ruling over a vast empire. Yet only after losing Baoyue does he finally realize his mistakes. Far from the palace's power struggles, Cui Baoyue finds sincere love amid the warmth of life in the southern lands and spends the rest of her days in peace and happiness.