[Historical Political Intrigue] + [Palace and Household Rivalries] + [A Battle of Equals] + [Heartbreaking Regrets] + [Female-Led Revenge]
Jiang Li is an outlier in the imperial family. Though she is the daughter of the eldest princess, her father is unknown.
Until the age of ten, she was abandoned in Ghost Valley, where she learned the arts of persuasion and strategy, as well as how to read people’s hearts, among a group of oddballs.
After turning ten, she was brought back to the bustling capital, only to serve as an obedient pawn for her mother’s political ally.
An imperial decree betrothed her to a nobleman renowned throughout the capital.
Everyone said he was as graceful as an orchid and gifted beyond compare, able to pacify the realm on horseback and govern it from the court.
But only Jiang Li knew how cold and ruthless a heart lay beneath that perfect facade. He treated human lives as grass, acted with wanton cruelty, and was a “man without virtue” whom everyone avoided.
At first, she loathed him and saw their marriage as a bargain with the devil.
Later, she realized that this madman, who harbored malice toward the entire world, would lay all his tenderness, patience, and principles before her without reservation.
He was her abyss, and the only ray of warmth she had in a chaotic age.
But their happiness did not last. A sudden calamity took away the only warmth she had.
She used every divination technique she had ever learned to seek justice for him, only to discover that in the imperial court, black and white had been reversed, and power had buried the truth beneath layer upon layer.
In that moment, Jiang Li finally understood that tears and justice were luxuries reserved for the weak.
If this world refused to play fair, then she would tear down its rotten court with her own hands.
“My husband, watch closely. From this day forward, these ten thousand miles of kingdom will be our sacrificial offering.”
