The Capital’s Oracle: The Legitimate Daughter’s Schemes: Ten years of seeking heavenly secrets at a Taoist temple, then a single return to the capital to set the world in order.
She is Shen Qingci, the legitimate daughter of the Shen family. At ten, she was falsely accused of bringing misfortune to her kin and abandoned on Mount Qingcheng. There, she received the teachings of a reclusive master. Her divinations can foretell life and death, her face-reading can reveal people’s hearts, and her geomancy can turn the tide. At sixteen, she returns to the capital with her extraordinary gifts. In the Shen household, her hypocritical stepmother and arrogant half-sister are exposed with a simple calculation of her fingers. In the imperial palace, amid treacherous power struggles and princes at each other’s throats, she reads the stars and the winds to foil every plot.
He is Prince Jing, Xiao Jue, a powerful figure at court, cold and suspicious, yet for some reason he treats her differently. It begins with her accurate warning at their first meeting: “Your Highness, beware of falling into water within three days.” Later, they thwart a palace coup and stabilize the court together. He shields her with his military might as she calculates the secrets of heaven; she wields her divinations like a blade to help him clear every obstacle. Beneath their pact of “mutual exploitation” lies the understanding of evenly matched opponents, and a deep affection neither needs to voice.
Household battles? She can calculate exactly which brick hides her stepmother’s embezzled accounts. Political intrigue? She can see where the princes’ factions are vulnerable. Revenge? She can unearth the truth of her mother’s wrongful death, buried beneath the earth. From the Shen family’s legitimate daughter to the Lady of Qing’an County, from taking revenge alone to standing shoulder to shoulder with him, she astonishes the capital with her divinations, while he uses his power to bring the realm to order.
When the divinations point to love being just around the corner, and a blade protects them in their moment between life and death, watch this formidable pair use heavenly secrets as their guide and human hearts as their game board, calculating their way through the world and plotting a future together.
