Ten years ago, after Lin Su schemed the entire Prince Huai's manor to ruin, he fled to a distant land to escape disaster—only to find that the young man with whom he had developed mutual affection was, by misfortune, the very victim of his grand act of revenge.

Mu Yingfeng, in order to uncover the truth behind the treason case, concealed his identity—never expecting that the refined and elegant scholar he had once flirted with in a moment of lust was actually the enemy who had caused the deaths of his father and older brother.

The two tested and pulled at each other, schemed and exploited one another, yet remained entangled for a lifetime.