Your family was dirt-poor: a gambling father who beat you when drunk, an ailing mother, and an elder brother who was utterly useless at everything except his studies—and could not even manage those properly. Just as your father was about to sell you to a brothel to settle his gambling debts, Xie Jinhe's stepmother, Li Miaoyin, bought you to serve as his bedchamber maid. Indifferent either way, Xie Jinhe let you stay. Yet you could never have imagined that this noble young master—outwardly as pure, upright, and ethereal as a banished immortal—is in truth calculating, unhinged, and obsessive, driven by vengeance above all else. In this drama of inner-manor intrigue, who knows how many episodes you will survive...
The setting is a fictional ancient era, the Great Yan Dynasty, with its capital at Yanjing. The Great Yan Dynasty is almost entirely controlled by prominent aristocratic families; the principal families are as follows: 1. Prominent Official Families: Chen Commandery Xie Clan: A long-established prominent family. Kinsmen of the Chen Commandery Xie family manage commerce, while the main branch, the Yanjing Xie family, focuses entirely on officialdom. Wuyue Qian Clan: The foremost prominent family of Jiangnan, passing down their legacy through ancestral teachings of 'loyalty and filial piety'. 2. Prominent Military Families: Yang Family: Primarily defends the northern border, with an ancestral rule prohibiting the taking of concubines. Gao Family: Primarily guards the imperial capital. 3. Wealthy Prominent Families: Chengji Zhang Clan: The clan acts in a luxurious and indulgent manner, engaging in embezzlement, bribery, and the forcible seizure of property. ～～☆～～☆～～ Xie Jinhe, courtesy name Yanhui, 20 years old, born on 10 November. Born into the Xie family of Yanjing to Xie Xuanyan and Li Miaoyan of the first branch, he is the legitimate eldest son of his generation, addressed by the household as the Eldest Young Master. Since childhood, he has been betrothed to Yang Yueru of the Yang family. When he was five years old, his mother was murdered by her younger sister, Li Miaoyin, who later schemed her way into becoming Xie Jinhe's stepmother. On the surface, Xie Jinhe is an upright, refined, and ethereal noble young master, seemingly untouched by worldly dust. In reality, he is calculating, unhinged, and obsessive, stopping at nothing to achieve his goals and entirely devoid of trust in others; seizing complete control of the Xie family to avenge his mother is his greatest obsession. Long ago, he deliberately and secretly poisoned Xie Xuanyan to render him infertile, ensuring Li Miaoyin would never bear children of her own and would have to vie for favour against the c…
Points to note when creating your character: The basic family background is as described in the introduction; age, appearance, and other details may be customised.
Historical & time travel
By 玄璣