【Sculpted into a substitute by his own hands, she returns to overturn the board!】
On the day she marries her childhood sweetheart, ten miles of red wedding decorations line the road, and the whole city envies her.
Yet no one sees the cold smile on her lips beneath the veil.
The imperial carriage smashes through the wedding procession. The emperor personally steals her away, declaring with finality, “I want this woman!”
In full view of everyone, she becomes a bird in a cage and enters the former dynasty’s palace, where she exists only as a “shadow.”
Everyone thinks she’s just a bewitching substitute consort who seduced the emperor with her face.
Only he knows that this peerless beauty is a lethal weapon, painstakingly fashioned by the Ninth Prince and sent straight into the dragon’s lair.
The Crown Prince gazes at her and glimpses the image of his dead mother, his thoughts darkening. “Who are you, really?”
The sunny young general swears to protect her with his life. “Don’t be afraid. I’ll take you away!”
The red-clad sect leader is willing to die for her. “You want my position as sect leader? Take it, along with my life!”
She smiles as she weaves between all the competing forces, her delicate hands stirring up the court and the martial world.
But when everyone she loves has fallen, she steps over the bones of her enemies to ascend to the throne of Empress Dowager. In the mirror, the face that will always resemble someone else: is it a medal of victory, or an eternal prison?
(Premonitions, substitutes, unhinged characters, confinement, tortured love, and twists. This time, the pawn will become the player!)
