The Powerful Minister’s Caged Bird Stops Pretending

Snow blanketed the city. With the pitiful guise of an amnesiac stand-in, she was hurled onto the cold blue bricks of the Prince Regent's manor.

Everyone said she was Pei Ji's fragile canary, a plaything in the Prince Regent's cage that would break at a touch.

But no one knew she concealed deadly blades beneath her long, slender fingers and swallowed blood and tears, all to take his head.

The former dynasty had fallen, and the blood feud of seventy-three family members weighed on her shoulders.

She played dumb and used poison to break through deadlocks. Even inside a gilded cage, she melted a gold hairpin over a clay brazier to forge the key to the forbidden grounds, burning her palms raw in the process!

But when she finally tore open the classified dossier, she discovered with a crash that the supposedly bloodthirsty tyrant had a crescent-shaped saber scar running across his back. It was a medal of honor, left behind when he risked his life to recover the late emperor's body!

And the one who had truly used her as a human shield and a tool was none other than the older brother she had waited three years for!

The blood mole at the corner of his eye lent him a wicked allure as he pressed her to the edge of the abyss.

“Little Sparrow, you used the miraculous salve I gave you to moisturize your lips, and you used my trust as a bargaining chip. You really want my life that badly?”

She cast off her act of fragility and raised her blade to shield him, killing intent surging in her eyes.

“Your life is mine to take. If anyone dares touch you, I'll carve them up first!”

When the false stand-in usurped her place and her own brother set the death knell ringing as he forced a coup...

She donned his dozens of pounds of black armor and dragged a black-and-gold saber, fighting her way back to the imperial capital through a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood!

“Pei Ji, I'll give you the world, and you give yourself to me!”