Love and Death in the Qing Palace

Her birth was more noble than anyone else’s. She was a highborn princess of the grasslands, but because she was born to a concubine, she fell into the lowly status of a slave.

A great blizzard struck the year she was born, freezing nearly all the livestock of her people to death. So they branded her a “jinx.”

By contrast, when her younger sister Bumu Butai was born, auspicious snow fell from the heavens, and the people called her “the lucky star of Horqin.”

The same circumstances, yet two entirely different fates!

She endured one humiliation after another, believing she could secure a peaceful life for herself, her mother, and her younger brother. Instead, her mother died a horrible death, and so did the man she loved.

Blow after blow taught her that only supreme power could change her fate and make those who had hurt her pay the most terrible price!

She knew he was the only one who could give her that power.

So, to take revenge, she approached him and married him, willing to bear the accusation of seducing her own younger sister’s husband. Little did she know that in this game of revenge, she would fall into a whirlpool of love and be unable to escape.

He was the mighty Fourth Beile of Great Jin, a master strategist and the future Khan of Great Jin. He was her uncle by marriage, and from the moment they first met, he was captivated by her pitiful, delicate figure.

He loved and cherished her, never imagining that his love would become the perfect tool for her revenge.

Chenfei, as the name suggests, is the emperor’s wife.

She, Hailanzhu, would be Hong Taiji’s wife for the rest of his life, and the only one.