Everyone knows that the Princess Consort of Prince Rui keeps watch over a manor without a single ghost. What no one knows is that the young emperor in the Forbidden City has guarded a heart-burning obsession for ten years.
When the border reports fell silent, he personally granted his elder brother the honor of dying for his country. Then he tore away every disguise and wielded imperial power like a blade, cleaving through the bonds of propriety to force his widowed sister-in-law into the palace.
From that day on, the imperial harem became a battlefield. Every act of submission and defiance on her part wrote another line in a brutal parable of power, desire, and survival. Beneath the phoenix throne, no one is innocent.
