[No rebirth, no System, no overpowered golden finger, no fake-versus-real heiress catfights, and no parental favoritism. There is a romance, but it plays only a small part. Set in troubled times, with a touch of wuxia. The female lead is strong, and only gets stronger.]
Before she turned sixteen, Li Lexian was the beloved youngest apprentice at Yueshan, where she could summon the wind and rain. After sixteen, she was the ill-fitting “wild girl” in the Grand Marshal's residence in the capital.
The capital was a treacherous place. She struck the powerful with her fists and challenged injustice with her sword, shattering the city's false peace. A little girl who vanished on a snowy night, a painter who died suddenly in Yangzhou, the corpse of a child deep within the imperial mausoleum... Every clue pointed to Wei Ze, the chancellor who held the empire in the palm of his hand.
When her long-missing fourth senior brother, Pei Jingshuo, resurfaced as a rising noble, and her third great-uncle, who spent his days petting cats and fishing, turned out to be the new emperor, Li Lexian realized that an invisible web had long since ensnared her fate and the truth of her origins.
