Princess Jiayi knelt in a pool of blood, staring blankly at the corpses strewn throughout the Central Palace, and at the four words that had condemned her life: daughter of a traitorous empress.
It took her only half an hour to accept that she had gone from the most revered Grand Princess of the Great Yin to a prisoner.
She survived the massacre because she possessed half the blood of the imperial line.
But her fate was to spend her life in captivity.
Yes, in that half hour, her mother, Empress Wende, and her maternal uncle, Pei, were all executed. No one from the Pei family or the Central Palace survived except her.
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The chief eunuch who served the emperor rolled up the imperial edict and walked over to her. His manner was respectful, but his words were contemptuous. “Princess Jiayi, this servant congratulates you. You were allowed to be born because you are a girl, and you have been spared this time for the same reason. But as the daughter of a traitorous empress, you will be imprisoned and never pardoned. This is the last kindness His Majesty can show you.”
As the massive palace gates closed, Jiayi’s gaze sharpened. She had only just come of age, and now she was to spend her life imprisoned?
There are two ways to live in this world: submit to fate, or defy it.
If she was destined to spend her life confined beneath imperial power, then she would defy fate from within its very heart!
The court was a treacherous game, the Great Yin faced crisis at home and abroad, and plots filled the nine-tiered palace.
Kneeling on a daybed in the forbidden Central Palace, she looked at the game of strategy she had spent seven years setting up and said calmly, “The game begins.”
Five stars to wait and see, so far it looks pretty good, but the scenes related to the heroine are a bit sparse. I hope there won't be any messy CPs. Once such a story has CPs, it will fall apart too easily. It looks pretty good, cheers up
It's not bad, not clichéd, and not outrageous. The author should have a cultural background and have collected everything on the bookshelf before updating it.
My favorite author, the content is clear, organized and not bullshit.
It's really good-looking. The heroine is smart, ruthless, resourceful, and has martial arts skills.
The story is quite attractive. Willing to continue reading