[Female lead’s perspective + palace intrigue and romance + everyday life + emperor and empress united + foreshadowing and major plot twists revealed after 150,000 words]
The Eastern Continent is divided among four powers, whose royal families have intermarried for generations. Zhou Bishuang, princess of the Nanan Kingdom, is ordered to travel to the Jinwu Kingdom for its once-every-five-years Autumn Hunt. In Changyang City, young men and women meet, come to know each other, fall in love, and stay together, sharing lives that may be brief or long.
She helps him secure the court and the inner palace, unite the realm, and willingly hands over the old lands.
She never leaves the palace walls in her entire life, yet her life is filled with tumult, and in the end she is left alone in an empty courtyard.
