The protagonist, a noble first-rank princess known as Princess Yunshang, the most beautiful woman on the Eastern Continent. She is the only legitimate daughter of the Duke of Dingguo and the beloved niece of Empress Dowager Liang Yanzhi. She spent sixteen years helping Fu Zhang rise from a poor low-ranking scholar to Prime Minister of Chen, sewing all his clothes and cooking his meals. Six years ago, the late emperor granted her engagement to Fu Zhang when she was thirteen. She waited patiently through multiple delays orchestrated by Fu Zhang. After discovering his affair with his widowed sister-in-law Yao Suyi and their illegitimate children at the ferry pavilion, she confronts them and calls off the engagement. She recently had a prophetic dream revealing a devastating future where her family is destroyed and she is poisoned to death by Yao Suyi.
