“Would you be my empress?”
“Heh. Your empress? I think you’d be better suited to being my imperial consort.”
It’s easy to fish in troubled waters, and these waters are so murky that I might as well catch something big.
Xu Mingjia was born beneath an auspicious cloud and has always had the strangest dreams.
The emperor is incompetent, the Xu family is stripped of its possessions, and the family patriarch is exiled to Hanzhou.
The entire Xu family relocates to Hanzhou. But factional strife at court grows ever fiercer, government orders go unenforced, natural disasters strike one after another, and refugees roam everywhere.
Hanzhou, a place so far away that the emperor’s reach barely extends there. There’s far too little to do. This seems like the perfect place to get up to something…
