The Phoenix Palace Conceals Its Edge

Beneath a green lantern that still burns through wind and rain, she stakes everything to protect her family’s good name.

Her father’s wrongful conviction remains unredressed, and her elder brother is ill and incapacitated. The young Shen Yanqiu enters the game in men’s clothing and steps into the treacherous chess match at court.

As the court rises and falls and political schemes grow perilous, she trades one strategy for a chance to survive and makes one stroke that determines the fate of the realm.

The world calls her mad, but with a green lantern in hand, she can summon clouds and rain with a turn of her palm.

“I never meant to shake the world. But since you refuse to leave me a way out, I’ll carve one with my blade.”