A masterpiece of stream-of-consciousness! The originator of extreme, flirtatious push-and-pull; a textbook on playing with people's hearts. Everyone is clever, with romance taking center stage and political scheming in the background, multiple identities, hidden powerhouses, and every advantage stacked. The Grand Princess versus several powerful men. Readers who prefer heroines with no sexual history, beware.
Everyone knows the Grand Princess is debauched and depraved: she keeps three thousand male companions and even dares to take an enemy nation's hostage to bed in the Buddhist temple.
But no one knows that the man at her feet is the greatest assassin in the martial world, her bedfellow is a prince and enemy spy, even the zither player she casually rewards can stir the world into turmoil, and the young general she favors most has her portraits sewn all over the inside of his armor.
She has always had just one goal: to be the keeper of a fishpond that never sinks!
Even the Chief Minister, who coldly denounced her as a “disaster in female form,” kneels in the dead of night to stain her fingertips red: “Your Highness may do as she wishes with my life.”
“She wields her beauty like a blade, carving open this kingdom that devours its own.”
She tears up Lessons for Women: a golden hairpin pierces the Minister of Rites' throat, and blood splashes across page 108 of Virtues for Women.
Very nice [already planted] [plus one bookshelf]