[Disgraced Crown Prince’s dark transformation and revenge + Empress’s desperate regret + Battle for the grasslands]
On the night Wu Minghuang bathed the imperial city in blood, the disgraced Crown Prince Li Zhaoyang watched his third brother’s head roll away.
“Zhaoyang, my son, your imperial mother grants you in marriage to the Turks.” The Empress lifted his chin with her cinnabar-painted fingers.
With a single decree, Li Zhaoyang became the first prince in history to be sent away in a political marriage.
But she never knew that the boy bundled into the marriage carriage would become the spark that burned the Nine Provinces to ash!
When the first torch flared in the Turkic royal tent, and the gold-patterned wolf cavalry trampled the border’s snow, a road of white bones, paved with two hundred thousand corpses, stretched before the Vermilion Bird Gate.
With blood dripping from his sword, Li Zhaoyang smiled up at Wu Minghuang, her phoenix crown trembling atop the city wall. “I’ve come to use these ten thousand miles of territory as firewood and the ninefold palace as a cauldron, Mother Empress, to brew you a bowl of head-chopping soup that will ensure you live to a hundred!”
◆The Wolf King bows, the shaman weeps blood◆ ◆Slay the Emperor, attain the Dao, and burn the Nine Provinces◆
(Darkened Crown Prince / Empress regret story / Lord of the grasslands / Utter revenge)
