Captive Princess: Reborn to Turn the Tide

In the first year of the Jingkang era, Zhao Jinyin, a princess of the Great Song, is taken north with the women of the imperial clan and reduced to the lowest kind of slave in the Jin kingdom's Laundry Bureau. In her previous life, she submitted to the Han general Xu Wei and escaped back to her homeland, only to be branded an “unchaste princess” and poisoned to death in a Lin'an prison. When she opens her eyes again, she is in a prison cart swaying through a storm. She bites through her tongue and swallows her tears and blood: this time, she will put down roots on Jin soil.

In the Laundry Bureau's icy waters, she endures bone-deep cold and climbs into the whirlpool of power. She wields Han learning as a blade and turns the inner palace into a chessboard. From laundry servant to palace official, from prisoner to player, she rewrites the fate of an imperial princess to the sound of northern flutes.