At the Battle of Yanmen Pass, the entire Shen army was wiped out.
Her father died in battle. Her three older brothers died in battle. Eight thousand soldiers died in battle.
She was the only survivor.
No one knew she was still alive. And no one knew that the “General Shen” who had struck fear into the borderlands was a woman.
She burned her armor and went alone to the capital.
Her enemies were all at court, but she didn’t even know which way the doors to the palace faced.
Then, in a rain-swept pavilion, she met Gu Chang’an.
The youngest chancellor in the empire, gentle as jade, with a smile that never reached his eyes.
He said, “I’ll help you. But first, you have to do something for me.”
She asked, “What do you want?”
He said, “I want you.”
She thought it was a matter of using one another. He thought it was a transaction.
Only later did they learn that some people meet in the storm so they can hold an umbrella for each other.
But when the truth came out, the person who had allowed the Shen army to be destroyed was neither the Grand Tutor nor a powerful minister, but the one seated on the imperial throne.
The person she had to kill was the emperor.
Would Gu Chang’an still help her this time?
