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Return Is The Throne

2026-02-08 Category: Short Drama

Return Is The Throne Plot:

Gu Zhao, the crown prince of Dayan Kingdom who had been missing for five years, went undercover as a lowly guard in the enemy state Beiliang under the alias "A Zhao" to investigate the truth behind his mother's poisoning death. When Beiliang invaded Dayan five years later, he returned with Beiliang's military plans, only to find his father dead, his uncle usurp the throne, his mother's cause of death falsified, and his first love Su Wanqing—forced to marry his uncle's tyrannical son under the threat of her family's execution. Worse still, he discovered that his mother's death was related to his uncle's collusion with Beiliang, and the Beiliang princess he once saved came to him with a secret letter, demanding he "trade the throne for her life." Between the mission to reclaim the throne, the safety of his first love, and the cross-border conspiracy, is Gu Zhao's return a king's revenge or a fate's trap?

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