She is the adopted daughter of a shipping magnate, raised in the seclusion of the inner quarters.
One backward glance and a marriage contract, and she is willing to become a concubine.
In the deep mansion, amid schemes and rivalries, she never expected that her devotion would be misplaced.
Four years later, she is a fatherless, abandoned child, wandering through the mountains. After a single encounter, she becomes the emperor's adopted daughter.
She meets an old acquaintance again in the palace and accompanies him to the frontier.
A young man who looks remarkably like her, and a general of exalted rank.
Status, power, war, the throne...
Where will it all lead in the end?
