Zhang Wencai

Set in the 1940s, former lovers Zuo Shuangtao and Chen Jiaping unexpectedly reunite and rekindle their love in a sea of spies as they pursue the same goals.

Overworked office worker Jiang Yueyang dies and is reborn in the Daxia dynasty as the Minister of Revenue’s daughter, with a quirky gossip-tracking system. Just as she plans to live leisurely, her inner thoughts are overheard, prompting the emperor to grant her a fifth-rank official title and summon her to court.

When the Empress gives birth to Princess Xu Yaohua, a Taoist priest declares the child a harbinger of disaster, and the Empress Dowager orders her killed. The chief eunuch abandons her by the palace moat instead, but not before putting a collar around her neck and cutting a cross-shaped scar into her arm, so she can be recognized one day. Sixteen years later, the arrogant Crown Prince torments a common girl of no standing and nearly gets her killed, with no idea that she is the princess the palace lost.