After its civil war, the traditional great power of Yuzhou still clings to its outdated system of supreme imperial rule and noble fiefdoms. Class tensions continue to intensify...
Case after case emerges, and the conspiracies and secrets behind them gradually come to light. The many factions fighting and scheming all have the same goal: to seize the throne!
In this story, you’ll find:
A lovestruck military officer, reeled in and utterly smitten, risking his life to earn the merits that will win him a future with his girlfriend × A frail young noblewoman from a family of high-ranking officials who becomes a secret agent to liberate the people
The illegitimate son of a branch family of the royal capital’s top tycoon returns from studying abroad, rises to the top, and becomes an overbearing CEO who dotes on his wife × The eldest daughter of the Jiangnan shipping king, outwardly gentle and charming but, in business, a forceful woman with the ways of a bandit
A playboy pilot in the special forces turns over a new leaf and becomes a devoted simp × A courtesan abducted into the pleasure district saves herself and builds an independent life by providing leads on major cases
A blunt, square-headed, straight-laced man from a respected family of upright officials × The legitimate youngest daughter of a noble duke, both sharp-witted and politically astute
The only son of a clan chief who died young, a cherished family heir, sacrifices himself by marrying into another family to save his older sister × An orphaned daughter of the late emperor’s first wife turns ruthless after her maternal family is implicated in a case, then installs her mixed-race younger brother as the new emperor and rules from behind the curtain
There’s also the exemplary couple, a childhood-sweetheart heir and heiress of a marquis’s household; an ill-matched pair who torment each other because class differences keep them apart; and two people engaged by their parents to a duke’s heir who have agreed to see other people... There are so many pairings, there’s bound to be one to your taste!
Crime solving + political power struggles + business wars + romance... Set in a fictional world with technology slightly more advanced than today’s!
The royal family, nobility, bureaucrats, tycoons, and military all vie for power in a fateful entanglement spanning more than twenty years!
It gets better and better as you go to the back, there are so many foreshadowings in the early stages, and it gets more and more exciting later on!!
I just read the beginning, it seems to be a suspense style, which is my favorite type. I am waiting for the author to update it a lot.