THE ROAD TO REVENGE IS A MADMAN'S PARADISE. Betrayal, Love and Revenge are three qualities that sum up Yuan Liqiu and Xiang Ziwei's lives in a nutshell. The Luxurious Life of Yuan Liqiu, the only daughter of a silk merchant changes after her father and brothers are wrongfully accused of treason and executed. She is sold as a slave to Banxi Pavilion and is trained to become a Dancer. Filled with the unyielding thirst for revenge, Yuan Liqiu makes a deal with Nie Shaoqing the son of the men responsible for her father's death and the leader of the blood Lotus society. Xiang Ziwei the Emperor of Western Liang lost everything in one day. After he was betrayed and killed by his wife and younger brother. He develops a deep-rooted grudge that is imprinted in his soul which prevents him from getting reborn. He wanders the world for years as a vengeful spirit, stuck in the land of the living but with the bonds binding him to the other side holding firm. Nearly two decades after his death, he is summoned by the sickly Concubine-born son of the Nie Family, Nie Shaoqing. Who at his death's bed offers his body to Xiang Ziwei as the Price for his revenge. Xiang Ziwei takes over the body of Nie Shaoqing, the son of the Duke Shenxiu The thirst for revenge brings Yuan Liqiu and Nie Shaoqing together. After overcoming many adversities, Nie Shaoqing and Yuan Liqiu gradually fall in love. Will they succumb to their feelings or give in solely to the madness of revenge.
Two months later, the Imperial palace.
"It is getting late, let us call it a day", Assistant Imperial tutor Cheng announced as his attendant stacked up the students' worksheets at the spot beside his hands.
They had been studying for close to eight hours in the Closed confinement of the study.
The Princes and their study partners all but ran out of the study as soon as they were dismissed.
Nie was the last to leave, a eunuch wake-up to him as Deming backed his books and calligraphy brushed into his bag.
Nie Shaoqing raised a brow as the eunuch walked toward him, the eunuch looked oddly familiar to him.
He tilted his head slightly on seeing the red band on the edges of the eunuch's sleeves. He was a second-rank eunuch.
'Why is a second rank eunuch approaching me?" Nie Shaoqing thought as he bowed respectively at the eunuch.
His face did not betray his thoughts, the eunuch watched him closely, hoping to see him slip off.