Synopsis:
The way to rule is to keep the people prosperous; a strong nation begins with a wealthy populace.
Set rules in place across the land, reward those who move the wooden pole with a thousand gold pieces.
After ten years in a wasteland, three years more will bring forth a fierce forest.
To claim supremacy, one must lead; reform must carry the past into the present.
Shang Yang's reforms set Qin on the path to wealth and military strength, but he himself was cruelly executed by being torn apart by chariots, and his entire family was wiped out.
Ouyang Yanyu, leader of the world's greatest organization, the Misty Rain Alliance, has long managed this vast and mysterious group disguised as a man. No one knows she is a woman. Only she knows, though perhaps even she has forgotten.
Under the assumed name Gu Meisheng, she arrives in the imperial capital of Xianyang, bringing with her layer upon layer of mystery and a series of bloody, enigmatic storms.
The shrewd and capable King Huiwen of Qin, a noble young lord with a dual identity, the princes vying for the throne, the kingdom's foremost master who commands the imperial guard, the Great Qin's finest female general who leads a hundred thousand frontier cavalry... Amid all these powerful figures of extraordinary status, why has the usually low-profile Gu Meisheng become the center of every mystery and incident?
She becomes the hidden hand behind one tempest after another and a tangle of mysteries. What is her true identity? A frail, willow-like young woman from a fallen ministerial family? A cold strategist with little time left to live? Or the formidable leader of the Misty Rain Alliance? What is she trying to achieve with her every step fraught with danger, every move carefully planned, and every scheme calculated to the last detail?
It's a bit like the plot of Nirvana in Fire.