Shen Xingran was born a princess, yet the empress switched her identity and confined her at court under the name of the Crown Prince. She struggled forward through a world of flashing blades, only to become a stepping stone for someone else's rise. The day her identity as a princess was exposed was the day she died with hatred in her heart.
On a bitterly cold night at the age of twenty-eight, she closed her eyes with boundless resentment. When she opened them again, she had returned to the age of thirteen, before the conspiracy had taken root and while her enemies were still lying in wait.
She is the Crown Prince of the Eastern Palace, but she has already resolved to tear off her disguise and escape her cage, navigating the court as a princess.
Ye Yanshu, the daughter of a great general who disguises herself as a man, is her confidante. In her former life, Ye Yanshu died on the battlefield. This time, Shen Xingran will keep her far from the bones strewn across the field.
Lu Shiheng, her gentle and refined companion in study, is a close friend to both her and Ye Yanshu, as well as her finest strategist and partner.
The empress's cruelty, her younger brother's designs on the throne, the court's shifting intrigues...
Moonlight falls on blooming beauty, while letters conceal unspoken feelings. Armed with the script of her rebirth, she will uncover the truth behind her birth mother's drowning and make everyone who wronged her pay in blood.
The road through the imperial palace is perilous. With her youth as her brush and her friends at her side, she will write a tale of revenge and redemption that turns the world upside down.
She, Shen Xingran, will make the world understand that women, too, can rule the universe!
