Seizing Brilliance

[Both Leads Have No Other Partners] [Ten-Year Age Gap, Formerly Siblings] [Happy Ending] As the dynasty declines, beset by troubles within and threats without, family clans hold sway. Min Tingnan goes to war as a school captain at fourteen, is promoted to middle-ranking general at seventeen, and at twenty-two drives the Qiang people beyond Liangzhou. He is named General Longxiang and appointed Minister of the Imperial Household, also overseeing the palace guards. He commands over a thousand subordinates and enjoys unparalleled prestige in the capital. At twenty-eight, however, he is demoted and exiled to Liaodong. Just as everyone mocks the Pingyang Min clan for its total downfall, he declares himself a marquis, seizes the entire Liaodong Peninsula, and threatens the Central Plains. At thirty, he returns to the capital, replaces the central government with his own forces, compels the emperor to abdicate, changes the dynasty’s name, and looks down upon all under heaven. By then, he has everything and is at the height of his powers, yet his heart is empty and lonely. He longs for one person. Everything he has done is for the sake of staying with that stubborn, radiant soul… Min Xun has always believed she hates Min Tingnan: hates his heedless audacity, hates his relentless pursuit. Two people from sworn enemy families could only bring down heaven’s wrath by being together! But later, she learns that she does not hate him. She only loves him so painfully… They are enemies, yet they are also the people who care most about each other. (The leads are not related by blood, and they are even of different ethnicities! By the time they discuss marriage, the heroine has also changed her identity. There is no incest or erotic content here; this is simply a story of tangled histories, love, and hatred.)