Schemes of the Imperial Palace: At Last, the Abyss Falls Silent

[Cold-blooded, ambitious eldest princess × sickly, scheming crown prince; high-IQ heroine × cunning, devoted (pseudo-)lapdog | A cast of villains | Court intrigue | Scheming]

The court of the Great Qi dynasty is a treacherous place.

Zhao Jingyuan, the eldest legitimate princess, was born a pawn in the emperor’s hand, meant to keep the military power in check.

Her father lays traps at every turn, her maternal family harbors rebellious ambitions, and the princes around her fight to seize the throne, even if it means killing one another.

If this world leaves her no way to live, then she’ll carve one out in blood!

She conceals her brilliance, wearing calm as a mask and keeping an abyss for a heart.

She takes her seemingly harmless younger brother, Crown Prince Zhao Jingheng, and molds him into the sharpest blade in her hand.

“Jingheng, go deal with that meddlesome minister.”

“Yes, Sister.”

Everyone says the Crown Prince is frail and relies on his elder sister for everything.

Only Zhao Jingyuan knows that, sickly and scheming as he is, her younger brother is the only blade she has in the imperial court and inner palace.

She schemes at every turn, all to take control of her own fate.

From the depths of the palace to the imperial court, she goes from pawn to player.

When the abyss finally stills and all dust settles,

this vast realm will, in the end, be hers, Zhao Jingyuan’s, to shape with her own hands!