[All-female, Machiavellian, Clean, Secret CP Regent × Puppet Emperor]
"Eating women in this world is like swallowing snow, but I want to be the charcoal that burns snow."
On a snowy night in the twelfth year of Yonghe's reign, the whole family of the Xie family in Qingzhou was burned to the ground.
The legitimate daughter Xie Zhao crawled out from the corpse, burned the jade palace, and hid the blood-stained salt and iron account books. From then on, there was no more noble daughter of the family in the world, only the counselor "Su Chen". She entered the game with a broken body and formed an alliance with Cui Lingyi, a female border general. However, due to the arms embezzlement case, a rift gradually developed. She made a deal with Lu Wuxia, the owner of Xuanji Tower, and discovered that the account book entrusted to her mother before her death had been tampered with. She had a life-and-death game with political enemy Shen Yan, and exposed the other party's lie of "sacrificing the world at the expense of a small family", hiding his ambition to kill the king and seize the throne.
When the Beidou Wolf Swallowing Formation locks the border, when the grain road at Longcheng Pass is stained with blood, when the empress' secret edict reveals the royal scandal from twenty years ago——
Xie Zhao finally saw clearly that the center of this power storm was never the struggle between aristocratic families, but the "Dragon Slaying Bureau" carefully planned by the regent behind the dragon throne.
Her chess-holding hand is hanging in the air. Should she overturn the chessboard and collapse the dynasty, or should she take over Ran Yuxi and become the new sword-holder?
