Once, the capital was filled with grand officials. Who would have guessed the chancellor was a woman in disguise?
To save her family, she sheds her skirts and takes her brother’s place in office. From then on, the court gains a “young man” of extraordinary talent.
Amid the twists and turns of officialdom, she treads carefully, dancing on the edge of a blade. Beside the dragon throne, only the calculating prince understands her. He is her sole confidant, and her greatest trial.
When her crime of deceiving the emperor is laid bare, and childhood friends turn their weapons on one another, will she bow her neck to the executioner, or rise as empress and rewrite the rules of the world with her own hands?
