On the day Jia Nanfeng came of age, her childhood sweetheart was forced to drink poison, her father was thrown in prison, and the one who smiled as he handed her the knife was the Crown Prince, Sima Zhong.
“Be my blade, and I’ll avenge you.” He placed a phoenix hairpin in her hair with his own hands, then hid the heads of the entire Qi family beside her pillow.
The “ugly empress” Jia Nanfeng recorded in the history books was, in truth, a shattered moonlight beauty:
She cut open a favorite consort’s pregnant belly because the unborn child was a poisoned needle aimed at her own son;
She pushed her enemy into a dry well because a hellish workshop for human puppets lay beneath it;
She smiled as she burned her own marriage contract, only for the ashes to reveal a world-shattering secret:
Sima Zhong and Qi Mo were, from the very beginning, two halves of the same monstrous being!
Mad Crown Prince × darkened empress, mutual imprisonment, love and destruction
The cinnabar mark between his brows was the blood of her heart; her golden phoenix hairpin was a nail lodged in his bones.
When the truth came to light, she burned down the entire imperial capital.
The hand reaching out to her through the flames belonged to the surviving Sima, or to Qi Mo, returned in another body?
“Your Majesty, history is written by the victors.”
“Then I shall become the ruler of this land!”
