In the treacherous court of the Lanyuan Dynasty, where political schemes surge beneath the surface and every step could be your last, Shen Nianci, a noblewoman reborn with knowledge of the story after dying a miserable death in her previous life, meets Xiao Jue, the cold-blooded Regent, as if fate itself had brought them together. He is both the sharpest blade in her quest for revenge and the snow hardest to melt in her frozen heart. Their political romance, which begins with mutual scheming and grows into a willingness to entrust each other with their lives, is tempered into something precious amid a chain of deadly plots involving poisoned wine at palace banquets, corruption in military funds, and the Dowager Consort’s conspiracies. When the “loving mother” who raised her tears off her mask of hypocrisy, and her actions turn the court upside down, Shen Nianci wields her intelligence as a blade and her beauty as a shield, transforming from a pawn at others’ mercy into an uncrowned empress who holds the imperial phoenix seal. And Xiao Jue willingly bows to her, asking only to protect her as she secures this splendid realm. This is an epic tale of a resourceful heroine’s revenge, as well as an intense, bittersweet romance of political intrigue that turns from mutual exploitation into profound love.
