Tangled with the Golden Branch

Ning Heng goes up the mountain to gather herbs and saves a stranger poisoned by a love charm, spending the night with him against her will. Soon after, she discovers she is pregnant and is brought back to the Prince of Pingyang's mansion as the long-lost true daughter. The Emperor decrees she must marry the weak and sick Prince to ward off bad luck. Seeing the handsome yet frail Prince, Ning Heng agrees immediately, planning to marry him and send him off. However, when the Emperor's poison takes hold, she rushes to help him. When she lifts the curtain, she freezes—this face is exactly the man she saved in the mountains that night. She never expected the person she casually saved to be the current Emperor.