Cicadas Startle the End of Summer: Episode 1

Maid Qiuchan has served the marquis's illegitimate son Pei Hengzhi since childhood, ten years of devotion only rewarded with harmful contraceptive potions. For freedom, she accompanies the exiled second young master Pei Xiao to the barbaric lands of Lingnan. On the road, Qiuchan repeatedly risks her life to save the dying Pei Xiao; they find love in adversity, but this provokes Pei Hengzhi's obsessive pursuit and obstruction. Eventually, Pei Xiao fakes his death, Qiuchan kills Pei Hengzhi, and they shed their identities to live together in Ganzhou.