She flips the board of this world, determined to make every hero under heaven her devoted admirer!
“Playing the wastrel is a ruse; plotting to claim the throne is the real game.”
Sheng Lingxin opens her eyes and finds herself the infamous, useless legitimate daughter of a general’s household.
She falls into the water at a flower-viewing banquet? She turns around and kicks her white-lotus half-sister into the icy lake.
They withhold her allowance? She leads the Black Armor Army in clearing out the Second Branch’s private treasury.
Everyone says the Sheng family’s young lady is spoiled and brainless, but no one sees that...
As she laughs and jokes, she cuts off the enemy kingdom’s spies; with a drunken gaze, she calculates the court’s every move. Even the ancient painting that brought her here when she transmigrated conceals a secret that could topple the empire.
“Seven princes seek my hand, but I’ll take them as husbands, not become their wives.”
The Pavilion Master of Heavenly Secrets offers an astrolabe as his betrothal gift: “A hundred years of calculations, and you alone are the fated calamity of my life.”
The leader of the assassins kneels and offers the chain around his neck: “Either kill me, or... tame me.”
The richest man’s son brings a mountain of gold to serve as her bed: “The world is the game board. I’m betting on you.”
Most dangerous of all is the man she calls “Brother.” He pins her in a hidden chamber of the ancestral hall: “If our blood ties are a mistake, Xin, would you defy morality and heaven with me...?”
“To be reborn from the flames, the phoenix must burn away this rotten world.”
As the Red Flame Army closes in on the city, she stands atop a mountain of corpses in red, astride her horse:
“My rules are simple:
First, my people will die by my hand, if they must die at all.
Second, even the gods must bow before entering my city.
And as for the third...”
Her nine-section whip sweeps through the blood-red air. She looks back with a dazzling smile:
“Now, my seven husbands, kneel and welcome me back to the palace.”
