No romance throughout | Woman Disguised as a Man | Metaphysics and Political Intrigue | Everyone Has an Unrequited Love | No Female Rivalry, a Powerful Heroine]
Su Heng, a modern master of metaphysics, dies after suffering a backlash for peering into the secrets of heaven. When she opens her eyes again, she has become an orphan in another world. To survive, she is forced to disguise herself as a man from childhood.
Everyone praises the young master of the Su family for his extraordinary talent and blessings upon the land, but no one knows that this gentle, impoverished scholar possesses eyes that can see through fate.
To repay her adoptive parents' kindness and break free from the humble fate imposed on women everywhere, she takes the imperial examinations and travels to the capital. She places first in all three levels of the examinations, earns the top scholar title, and parades through the streets on horseback, making her name throughout Chang'an. At court, she uses divination to discern the nation's fortunes, predict natural disasters, solve wrongful convictions, and purge corrupt officials.
She saves a physician in dire straits, supports a merchant woman fallen on hard times, promotes laws for women, and gathers the strength of heroines, overturning the prejudices of her age.
A prince falls for her, a great general bows before her, and the Imperial Preceptor respects her. All the powerful and influential in the realm admire her.
But Su Heng has no interest in romance or worldly splendor. Her only purpose in life is to help the people and safeguard the realm.
When her identity is finally revealed to the world, the court is shaken and the people kneel in worship.
Only then do people learn that the legendary minister who held the court in her hand and ushered in a golden age was a woman all along.
She seeks no companion in romance, only peace for the realm. One woman becomes a legend and leaves her name for all eternity.
