“If I can have Ajiao as my wife, I’ll build her a golden house to live in.”
The four-year-old Liu Che’s vow still rang in her ears, even as thirty-five-year-old Chen Ajiao breathed her last amid the bitter winds and rain of Changmen Palace.
When she opened her eyes again, she was fourteen once more: not yet married to Liu Che, not yet entered into the palace, and not yet suffered the golden-house disaster that had consumed her entire life.
In this life, she would no longer be a pawn for others to manipulate.
Empress Dowager Dou’s schemes, Princess Guantao’s ambitions, the protection of the Prince of Liang, the undercurrents among the vassal lords... All became threads in the pattern woven in her hands.
She founded the Lantai Society to build her influence, offered strategies to quell the Xiongnu rebellion, and promoted reforms to fill the treasury. From a delicate girl trapped in a golden house, she grew into the Grand Princess who ruled Weiyang Palace.
Yet fate laid another trap:
The boy who had promised her a golden house had also been reborn with memories of his previous life.
Four-year-old Liu Che concealed the schemes of a thirty-five-year-old emperor in his eyes.
With grievances from two lives and memories of both, who would play black and who white in this game of power at Weiyang Palace?
When family loyalty clashes with the realm, and the one she loves most becomes her deadliest enemy,
can Chen Ajiao break the curse of “keeping a beauty in a golden house” and write a glorious chapter of her own in the history books?
The story is very interesting. Especially Liu Che, he was reborn twice, and the two times were very different. The first rebirth felt like it was a fabrication to darken Liu Che, but the second rebirth felt right, in line with the historical character of Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Gillian was reborn for the first time when Liu Che was four years old when he told her about the hidden beauty of the Golden Crow. She decisively rejected Liu Che and fought with him in a battle of wits and courage. The second rebirth was directly reborn when Gillian became the queen and was about to be rejected by Liu Che. But what would Gillian choose this time? I won't say anymore, I'm going to catch up on the update🤔 Later, after the memories of Liu Che and Gillian were reset, everything returned to the historical origin, and they closely overlapped with the historical figures. The more you get to the back, the better it gets. With multiple lines running in parallel, the story becomes more and more interesting! [Laughing][plus one on the bookshelf][learned]