Fragrance of Jade Ashes: A Deep Palace Misunderstanding

She was the Grand Tutor's daughter, famed throughout the capital, and once enjoyed the purest affection in the world and a carefree youth. The Crown Prince, her childhood companion, was the gentlest ripple on the lake of her heart.

But a bloody palace coup shattered her glasslike world. A new ruler took the Dragon Throne: an emperor renowned for his iron fist and popularity among the people. Her former brilliance turned to dust. Forced into the inner palace, she became a forgotten name in a corner, and amid upheaval on a devastating scale, she lost her closest family. Even her memories were left in fragments.

When the truth cuts through the fog of forgetfulness like a blade, the innocent girl she once was is already dead. Deep within the palace, she carefully weaves a beguiling web. Her former innocence becomes her sharpest disguise. She is determined to become a femme fatale, using her peerless beauty as bait and her cunning as a blade, vowing to drag the supreme power into the abyss of ruin.

This is a lavish and dangerous dance of revenge, with every step taken on the edge of a cliff. When a carefree butterfly's wings stir up a storm, and long-buried hatred ignites a raging fire, can she strike back in a breathtaking last stand amid the whirlpool of ambition and old affections? Having fallen from the clouds into the mud, then tempered herself there and been reborn, will she ultimately succumb, be destroyed, or reclaim true freedom for herself?