"She 'killed' her fiancé with her own hands, only to forcibly marry his stand-in five years later."
Female warlord Jasmine Sullivan 'accidentally' kills her traitorous fiancé, Zane Crawford, at the execution ground with a single shot. From then on, her qipao is stained with blood, and her heart turns to ice.
Five years later, the famous performer Julian Sterling appears on stage—with a face identical to Zane Crawford's, but with a venomous glint in his eyes. She forces him into marriage, imprisoning him as a 'stand-in for her dead husband' and tormenting him day and night.
Beneath the red candles of their wedding chamber, an old scar on his collarbone holds a secret; over cross-cupped wine laced with poison, she drunkenly murmurs, "I wasn't the one who fired the gun." When a fake Adam's apple falls off and a twin sister appears, a shocking conspiracy comes to light: the one who fired the gun back then was her closest kin, and the mastermind has been weaving a web for years...
"This time, he wants her to tear apart the lies with her own hands and love him once more amidst blood and fire."
—A Republican-era drama of tormenting love and power struggles, a pinnacle of reversal in subs…