Break the Spring Chill

*Palace intrigue only + slow-burn romance + clear-headed, intelligent female lead + she always gets even + not a one-on-one romance

In the eighteenth year of Yuanming, Xue Yunzhi is forced by her stepmother to enter the palace in her elder sister’s place. One blow after another leaves her barely able to breathe, while her elder half-sister happily prepares her dowry.

Beaten down, humiliated, destroyed: none of it frightens her. Those who fail to sink her into the mire will become stepping stones on her way to the top.

She will show everyone how a lowly palace maid, treated like dirt today, can become the favored consort who reigns supreme in the palace tomorrow.

She has wandered through hardship time and again, weathered one upheaval after another. From Eastern Qi to Northern Chu, she has never truly bowed her head to anyone.

The world’s blades of wind and swords of frost press harshly upon her, yet she insists on being the hardiest camellia, untouched by frost and snow through the bitter winter.

As if it knows the east wind and its old acquaintance, one branch has already bloomed ahead of spring.