Strong female lead, female empowerment, court intrigue, fantasy, powerful allies, fated bonds, women supporting women, saving the world, bloodline legacy
The old emperor is dead.
The entire court has descended into chaos, and everyone is craning their necks, waiting to feast on the spoils.
The eldest princess, Zhao Lingyang.
Bearing the dragon bloodline, she stages a banquet trap to protect her young brother.
Her ambitious imperial uncle.
The Wolf King of the northern frontier.
They are all pieces she has lured into her trap.
She will claim this realm on her own.
Su Ningzhi, a merchant's daughter from Jiangnan.
She has the phoenix bloodline, a rarity unseen for a century, yet her life in her family is always hanging by a thread.
To save her own life, she stumbles upon her elder brother's sordid dealings with the imperial uncle. They are using the Su family's trade routes to smuggle deadly military weapons called Ice Ridges.
At a palace banquet, the fates of two women become entwined forever.
When Zhao Lingyang's dragon-patterned sachet meets Su Ningzhi's phoenix-patterned jade pendant, an object dormant for a hundred years awakens.
The dragon bloodline in the capital and the phoenix bloodline in Jiangnan are linked at last.
The two women join forces.
The frostbite cases in the palace, the bloody letter from Yanmen Pass.
The smuggling ledgers, the Blood Witch Hall's Ice Fiend Bone Powder.
Piece by piece, they unearth a major case buried for a hundred years.
The realm is in chaos.
What they are protecting is no longer just the young emperor and their crumbling households.
Two women, relying on no men and playing no petty household games.
They wager their bloodlines.
They use their lives as chess pieces.
They intend to overturn this rotten world and give its people a new order.
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