The Empress Dowager Mustn't

Year Three of Zhaohong. Heavy snow.

Xu Changqing thought he was simply having an illicit affair with a lonely, wealthy widow.

Until one night, she donned the phoenix robe that symbolized supreme power and parted her red lips. “Changqing, I don’t want you to leave.”

Only then did he realize that the sweet woman cuddling in his arms was the Grand Empress Dowager of Dalin, who ruled from behind the curtain!

Worse still, danger lurked everywhere in the imperial palace.

The Grand Secretariat’s chief minister held the court in his grip and treated the imperial family like puppets.

The frontier princes watched hungrily, intent on seizing the throne.

To protect the woman who had spent over a decade as a widow in name only, and to survive in this palace that devoured people, Xu Changqing was forced to awaken his fate!

[You are bound to succeed, with a hundredfold rate of progress!]

From Hanlin Academy reader to imperial bodyguard, from a royal consort to the empire’s regent.

When Xu Changqing stood at the pinnacle of power, the whole world was stunned.

Could that man rumored to get by on his looks really have smashed half the imperial city with one punch?

Lu Yuluan nestled against him, her eyes full of adoration.

“My man is naturally second to none in all the world.”