She was abandoned on the day she was born. A black birthmark on her right cheek was deemed an ill omen, so her parents cast her aside.
But misfortune brought her good fortune: the Pavilion of Heavenly Secrets rescued her, and she became the apple of three masters’ eyes. One taught her martial arts, one fed her poison, and one taught her the art of mechanisms. The Medicine Granny spent five years using medicine to erase the mark on her face. From then on, she was breathtakingly beautiful.
When she was ten, she saved a badly wounded boy. Dazed and confused, he mistook her for an enemy and bit her. She kicked him over and called him a little wolf.
At sixteen, he sent someone to fetch her. Only after arriving in the capital did she learn that he was the crown prince.
No one in the harem knew who she was, and no one at court knew her origins. She came from the wilderness, yet took her place on the throne.
But she was never afraid. She had her own formidable skills, three masters standing behind her, and the new emperor always at her side.
