Ambition is vitality, and power is the right to survive. An epic centered on women's awakening to power, self-forging, and the destruction of their own family. Love is a flower blooming among thorns, not a vine of salvation.
The story follows Shen Zhiwei as she grows from a pawn exploited by others into the one moving the pieces. Like a strangler fig, she is tenacious, clever, and fatally alluring, carving out a throne of her own amid the thorns of power. Hers is a story that gives ambition its grandest vindication.
Strong female lead, single female lead, no damsel-in-distress rescues, no so-called male lead, only the heroine's allies and partners. Don't read if that bothers you.
