[Court intrigue + angst and sweetness + healing + strong female lead + historical romance]
The Wen family of Great Liang produced a woman blessed by fate. Her grandfather taught her strategy and the art of war; her mother taught her the proper rites, music, chess, calligraphy, and painting. Yet everyone still treated Wen Zhaoyue as a mere appendage to men.
The Pei family of Great Liang had twins, a boy and a girl, but the girl was born with jaundice. Pei Xingzhou took command of the Pei army from his father and won one victory after another, yet everyone criticized him because the Pei twins were said to bring misfortune.
An unexpected Mid-Autumn banquet turned Great Liang's already murky political scene upside down. With the Empress Dowager making things difficult, a favored consort scheming against her, the emperor growing suspicious, and the great clans in decline, could Wen Zhaoyue, a woman blessed by fate, escape a life trapped in the inner palace as a man's appendage? Surrounded by the whirlpool of power, could Pei Xingzhou tell whether his choices were right or wrong? Was the woman blessed by fate truly so, or was it all a scheme the late emperor devised for love? Which of the Pei twins with jaundice had the Pei family abandoned all those years ago?
The answers would all be found in the imperial capital of Great Liang...
“I'll show the world that women are just as capable. We can do it too!”
“If Your Majesty is to become empress of all under heaven, then I will be your blade and your sword, the first female minister of power in all history!”
Moonlight spills beyond the window, silver threads gleaming; a boat glides across the emerald lake, setting the heartstrings trembling.
It's pretty cool, I support it 😄