The Path to Becoming Crown Princess

A fortune-teller said Song Xiyao was born with the bearing of an emperor.

Song Xiyao scoffed and drove him out of the gates. Her father was an incorruptible Assistant Minister of the Court of Judicial Review who wouldn’t part with a single coin. A stern, impartial judge who wore his official robes 365 days a year, he was a feared enforcer throughout the capital. He had no money to stage a rebellion! Until one night, Song Xiyao saw him strolling beneath the moon, hand in hand with the empress herself, looking every bit the loving couple. Worse still, Song Xiyao heard the emperor’s voice coming from her eldest brother’s room: “I sneak in here every single day for a stolen kiss...”

The nightmare of her entire clan being wiped out had come true. Song Xiyao wanted to die! Later, her father and brothers fell in battle one after another, and the empress breathed her last on a spring day.

On the eve of her enthronement, Song Xiyao crouched by her brother’s grave, sticking foxtail grass in the ground. “Brother, Xiyao is going to be emperor.”

“Wait for Xiyao down there... Don’t go too far ahead.”