At nine, Bai Yuxi was disfigured by her sister, Su Luoxue, and used by her father, the prime minister, as a pawn to marry Prince Ling Junyan. Though she truly fell for the prince, her father schemed with Su Luoxue to stage a rescue, leading the prince to marry Su out of pity. This deepened his distrust of Bai Yuxi and the prime minister. A final scheme involving a drugged misunderstanding further fueled the prince’s resentment, believing something had happened between him and Bai Yuxi.