[Historical political intrigue + revenge and catharsis + the nation and the people + play the pig to eat the tiger + ruthless and decisive + angst before the payoff]
At sixteen, Song Yun’an met her cousin Song Yunxiu, the one she’d heard so much about.
The two were inseparable. They climbed trees to raid birds’ nests, waded into rivers to catch fat fish, and even dressed as men to visit brothels and beat up lecherous brutes.
They could also sit together on quiet nights, sharing their deepest thoughts.
But then her father, Prince Yong, was falsely accused of treason. Their servants scattered, her family was destroyed, and the new emperor demoted Song Yun’an to slave status.
Only after Song Yunxiu imprisoned her did she learn that he himself had presented the letter accusing her father of treason!
Betrayed and imprisoned, Song Yun’an leapt from a cliff and disappeared under an assumed name.
For ten years, she traveled throughout the Great Qi, laying an inescapable trap, all to send Song Yunxiu to the deepest depths of hell.
She quietly returned to the capital and plunged a knife into Song Yunxiu’s chest, only to discover that he had become even more dangerous than he was ten years ago!
“Song Yun’an, don’t even think about leaving me. If you do, I’ll make you wish you were dead.”
Song Yun’an put herself in the middle of the game in the capital, carefully plotting every move. But a man in an orchid-embroidered robe stood by her side, impossible to push away.
She had once saved his life, and now he wanted to repay her by offering himself to her, intent on becoming her husband.
Jiang Rubai: “Song Yun’an, I’m willing to be your pawn once again.”
Song Yun’an had believed in fate for sixteen years. Now, she was going to pierce the heavens above and trample them into the mud.
“Fate has always been in my hands alone!”
