Zhao Huanyu, the Prime Minister’s legitimate daughter, spends three years lying low, confined to her chambers by illness. In secret, she establishes Xiaosha Pavilion, the first shadow organization in Shangning. To avenge her birth mother, she severs all ties with the Prime Minister. Then, overnight, she becomes a commandery princess and is swept into the storms of court politics.
She uses Yuan Qi to search for the truth. In the twenty-third year of Yuanhe, Nan Ning is defeated. Is there any road left for the people of a fallen kingdom?
“I, Zhao Huanyu, have never relied on anyone but myself!”