She came to marry for peace, not to become a consort, but to build a bridge.
To protect her homeland, the Western Regions princess Bu Yaoguang entered the deep palace in Chang’an. She carried the legacy of “opening trade routes to all under heaven,” but instead faced:
An unfathomable emperor who regarded her as a useful pawn;
A dowager empress whose hatred had been born of love, and who poured out on her all the venom she felt toward her father;
An impetuous border general who pointed his sword at her homeland.
In public, she was a foreign concubine navigating one perilous step after another. In secret, she was the deepest “eyes and ears” her fallen tribe had within the palace.
When she discovered that her fate had long been bound to a Silk Road on the verge of collapse and a royal secret spanning three generations, she decided she would no longer be a tribute to be manipulated at will.
Within palace walls steeped in prejudice and scheming, she would carve out a true path to survival for two civilizations.
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