In the twenty-third year of Yongxi under the Dasheng Dynasty, the entire Shen family is accused of treason and executed. Only sixteen-year-old Shen Jiang survives, covered in blood.
Five years later, she returns from the northern frontier in silver armor, hailed as “General” by a hundred thousand cavalrymen.
At court, she presents a blood-written petition and forces a retrial, backing the emperor into a corner.
On the hunting grounds, she lays a trap with fire mines and turns the tables, making the empress’s faction pay for its blood debt.
Love and political intrigue intertwine as old comrades and new allies gather around her. She treads a path lined with blades, yet swears to ascend the throne herself.
It is revenge, and redemption; a game of intrigue, and the history of an empire she writes with her own hand.
When Xiao Yu, the regent who once saved her at the execution ground, reaches out to her...
She smiles. “We can work together, but I’ll write the edict.”
She comes through fire to rule all beneath heaven. This time, the world is the furnace, its people the fuel, and she alone holds the light.
