No CP # Empress's Rise # Court Intrigue and Revenge # Sweet on the Outside, Dark Within # Female-Led Power Fantasy # From Household Feuds to Ruling the World
Blurb:
On a stormy night, her enemies wailed outside Shuyu Pavilion. Inside, Ling Yue gently stroked her late mother's memorial tablet, a frost-edged smile on her lips.
“Mother, once I was the meat on their chopping block. Now the tables have turned.”
She had once been an insignificant girl kneeling in the rain, begging for help that never came. Her mother had died with hatred in her heart.
After lying low for two years, she put on a meek facade, took the household management token, and gradually backed her enemies into a dead end.
“I'm sorry for your predicament.” “I'm not the one who decides.” Every gentle word was a razor, cutting straight to the heart.
Her fourth sister's death? Just an insignificant pawn on her revenge board.
She had planned to take revenge, then find a “manageable” husband and live out her days in peace.
But the cutthroat infighting behind high walls and the world's cruelty made her understand:
Depending on a man? Nothing but a mirage! The rules of this world have never shown women any mercy!
If that's the case, then she would claim control of the household! And the marriage to the prefect? It would make a perfect stepping-stone!
The inner quarters were too small to contain her hatred and ambition.
Her gaze passed beyond the high walls, settling on the supreme Dragon Throne.
From a concubine's daughter who manipulated others into killing for her, to an empress who commanded all under heaven.
She would carve a path in blood and climb it with schemes.
Those who betrayed her, bullied her, stood in her way, and even those who claimed to love her... would all become stepping-stones to the heavens!
Now watch this sweet-faced, dark-hearted avenger stir up the world and make the phoenix cry across the heavens!
