Abandoned at the full moon, raised on wild greens at a country estate, married into the Prince’s household in her younger sister’s place, then stabbed by her own mother and pushed off a cliff on the day she returned home to visit: that was Yun Moli’s first fifteen years.
A new face and a new body, medicine and martial arts, raising venomous creatures and making poisons, then returning to the capital as the Empress Dowager’s adopted daughter: that was An Lan’s second life.
She returned to the capital not to reunite with her family, but to kill. The Yun family, Prince Duan’s household, the faithless heir, her hypocritical younger sister: she would spare none of those who had pushed her off that cliff.
But after she cleared every opponent from the board, she never expected to feel so empty inside.
The man seated on the throne asked her, “What do you want?”
She replied, “A piece of land, a house, and a tree that bears fruit. Then I’ll live my own life.”
He gave her freedom.
She named herself An Lan: from turmoil to peace.
A lifetime of hatred, half a life lived anew. In the end, she became her own home.
