The Palace of Compassionate Tranquility: The Story of Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang

Shunzhi died young, and a child emperor ascended the throne, while four powerful regents eyed the imperial seat!

She was the most legendary woman since the founding of the Qing Dynasty: Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang. Neither consort nor empress, but the Grand Empress Dowager who held the empire’s fate in her hands!

While eight-year-old Xuanye trembled in the Palace of Heavenly Purity, she burned incense and plotted in the Palace of Compassion and Tranquility:

She endured for eight years, turning the arrogant Oboi’s crimes into chains to bind him;

She forged a marriage alliance with Mongolia, using Hesheri’s phoenix crown to secure Soni’s support;

She quietly cultivated rising talent, making Suksaha and Mingzhu blades in her grandson’s hands;

In court and harem alike, every audience became a barometer of political winds!

From capturing Oboi and quelling the Three Feudatories to recovering Taiwan and subduing Galdan, behind every imperial decree of the Kangxi golden age lay the mark of her vermilion brush!

Watch this iron-willed phoenix among men turn the tide in a world of male power games, trading a lifetime of patience for a century of Qing prosperity!

Real historical figures + masterful political intrigue + unconventional palace drama: this is the ultimate battlefield of Qing palace fiction!