Ashes in the Capital

Tang Jinshu holds the title of Prince of Pingyang and is in love with Jiang Zixu. He is already involved with Qi Xueyi, and together the two of them build a case that she has plotted rebellion. The charge takes. Her army is broken, her clan is wiped out, and she is executed for high treason. In her last moments she sees Gu Liancheng in the crowd, unable to stop any of it and undone by it, and understands too late that he was the one who was loyal to her. She opens her eyes five years earlier, before any of it has happened, and this time she does not wait to find out. She goes to Liancheng, tells him enough for the two of them to work together, and they begin setting a trap for Jiang Zixu and Qi Xueyi, who are moving toward the same scheme they used the first time.