The Grand Princess Snatches a Commoner, and the Top Scholar Comes to Her Door from the Start

The Great Qing court is teetering on the brink. With the young emperor still a child, the regent Princess Xiao Lanxue uses her outrageous behavior as armor, navigating between the predatory Prince Jing, the emperor's uncle, and the wavering great clans.

To break the deadlock, she points a jade-white finger at the newly crowned top scholar Wen Yuanci, a man as pure and bright as a clear breeze and moonlight, and forcibly brings him into her residence as her male favorite.

One is a cold, calculating ruler burdened with the fate of the realm. The other is a refined nobleman from an upright family, concealing a blood feud and biding his time.

Two equally cunning foxes don their masks and harbor their own schemes in the princess's resplendent palace. Yet amid the bloody storms of court, they have no choice but to entrust each other with their backs.

In a silent secret chamber, a faint candle flame flickers. She holds his writing hand as he marks the names of powerful officials with a heavy stroke of vermilion.

He turns his head slightly, his gaze passing over her snow-white neck. Suppressing the dark flames surging in his eyes, he speaks in a gentle yet dangerous voice. “Your Highness, once you take hold of this blade of mine, you will never be able to let it go.”