The Jade Palace Calamity

Name: The Jade Palace Calamity
Author: Wu Yao

青宫劫

by Wu Yao (吾尧)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 144k Words
Genre: Ancient Romance
Subgenre: Palace & Household Intrigue
Updated: 1y ago
Source: Fanqie

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【Historical Romance + Nobility + Court Politics + Schemes + Ensemble Cast + Healing + Devoted Love】 Schemes for the throne, blood on vermilion walls. Shattered shadows on jade steps, the moon like a bow; the unfinished game of chess, the funeral bells toll. The realm at stake, the Eastern Palace in peril. The candle-dragon bears its grudge, illuminating the deep shadows; night after night, ghostly lanterns glow in the inner palace. Does anyone with even the slightest connection to the Eastern Palace have to fight and scramble for it, one after another? Though they are bound by blood as fathers and sons, grandfathers and grandsons, uncles and nephews, brothers and siblings, they all go mad for it, trampling on every human bond. Sui Qianxun was the Prince of Xiang’s grandson. His father was the Prince of Xiang’s heir. When the Prince of Xiang ascended the throne, ancestral custom dictated that Sui Qianxun should become Crown Prince, and his father should take his rightful place as heir in the Eastern Palace! But then his father’s troops were trapped in Ceying Hall, handing the Emperor a weapon to use against them. Sui Qianxun had no choice but to endure. Yet the last thing his father did was to find someone to smuggle a six-year-old maid out of the residence. By an unfortunate twist of fate, the little maid never made it out. Later, someone went looking for her. He lowered his eyes, not daring to meet that person’s gaze again. He slumped to the ground, his voice faint as a thread. “A Yun... is dead.” Later, he met a woman who kept saying she disdained being his concubine. But before long, she was lying in his arms like soft jade, saying, “Please, My Lord, show me some affection!” He smiled roguishly and gathered her trembling body into his arms. “Do you mean that?” At his words, she shuddered, goose bumps rising all over her. She thought to herself that looking this alluring really did take some talent. He no longer wanted to spend every day on tenterhooks, never knowing when the blade hanging over his head might silently fall. If it were only him, that would be one thing, but she was in his arms, too.

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