Lan Changge cannot understand why the tutor who has always been so strict with her, and Consort Wan, would risk their entire clans just to save her.
She cannot understand why her father, the emperor, who always favored her, had her torn apart by chariots and left her crushed beneath the feet of passersby at the gates of Xuanjing, never to be reborn.
Reborn one day, she awakens with hatred in her heart. She casts off her plain clothes and dons dazzling crimson, sending her enemies into an abyss of no return.
The empress’s deadly schemes? She will be deposed. The duke’s infighting? She will bring it all crashing down. An enemy nation’s provocation? It will become a blade in her hand, cutting away the threat.
When faced with the choice between the one she loves and the realm, her heart is clear as a mirror: depending on others is no path to the throne, and romantic love cannot compare to holding the world in her grasp. Rather than depend on others in the harem and live at their mercy, she would rather take charge of the realm’s fate herself.
All power in the world lies on the chessboard. This time, she is no longer a piece, but the one moving them.
She will become the true master of the board.
She will scheme with wisdom, take blood as her warning, and cut off mortal attachments with an iron heart.
From the inferno of the inner palace to the heights of the ninefold throne, Lan Changge will forge the bones of an emperor of her own.
With the phoenix throne overturned, only the dragon robes remain to be seen. This vast realm belongs in her hands! She will become the new emperor and write her own legendary epic.
