Luo Qianjue, a highly educated modern woman, transmigrated overnight and became the lowliest concubine-born daughter in the Luo household of Li State.
Oppressed by her stepmother, caught in vicious rivalries with her sisters, and ignored by her birth father, she faced a disastrous start from the very beginning.
But she kept her wits up her sleeve and her schemes close to her heart. Starting from nothing, she made the capital her game board and stirred up a storm across the land.
She opened a medical clinic, established a trade guild, and seized power, rising step by step from the mud to become the empire's most dazzling and dangerous anomaly.
He was Yan Wuheng, the most brilliant young nobleman in Li State, peerless in strategy and always several moves ahead.
He laid traps, and she broke them. He hunted her down, and she turned the tables on him.
A series of high-stakes contests of intellect played out in silence, between the royal court and the streets. They were each other's most dangerous opponents, and the only ones who truly understood each other.
Amid the clash of blades, the threads of fate quietly wound around them.
Then the truth of her identity emerged: she was a lost daughter of the northern borderlands, the only princess of Lin State.
Returning to her homeland, she gathered advisors, commanded a mighty army, built a commercial empire, and rose like a phoenix into the sky.
Meanwhile, utterly disillusioned with his family and former kingdom, Yan Wuheng faked his death and vanished. After rebuilding his power, the two met again.
The player and the pawn of old now faced a much larger game board. Would they be enemies or allies?
This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.