Tanchun’s Distant Marriage: The Phoenix Rules the World

Jia Tanchun, one of the Twelve Beauties of Jinling, is renowned for her political acumen and far-sightedness. In the original Dream of the Red Chamber, she declares with lofty ambition, "If only I were a man, I would have left long ago." Now she has truly left, sent far away to marry in Siam, where she finds herself on a path more perilous than anything she could have imagined.

A gravely ill prince, power-hungry ministers, a court rife with undercurrents, and a kingdom on the brink of collapse... With keen insight, Tanchun sees through the truth; with courage, she turns the tide. This is no mere struggle for favor among the women of the inner palace. It is a contest for the fate of a kingdom and its people.