An argument over whether an individual can rewrite history unexpectedly sends two modern women tumbling into the Kangxi era.
One becomes Lin Wanqing, the daughter of a scholarly family in the capital; the other, Su Mingyi, is taken in as a stepdaughter by a merchant household in Jiangnan.
One enters the halls of power, while the other delves into the lives of ordinary people.
With modern reason, courage, and feeling, they tear at the skin of a dying empire.
They open schools for girls, reform businesses, build granaries for disaster relief, challenge treaties, and save disaster victims...
They spend all their youth and conviction fighting against their age.
But in the end, even light is swallowed by a sea of dust...
Their failure awakens future generations, and their deaths crack open the pages of history.
"Even if our age devours us, we must leave behind bones that scream."
This is an epic about ideals, friendship, the power of women, and fate.
They could not save their country, but they awakened the future.
I like it, this is a strong female genre, the two female protagonists are really serious about their careers, and I don't know how to describe it, but the two female protagonists are really trying to pave a way for women in this ancient time and give women a voice.