Iron and Rouge: The Bloodshed and Lust of Western Xia's Founding (Part Two)

Important announcement: I'm back, and the story is resuming. This time I'll keep updating until it's finished, and it will be free. Aren't you happy? Excited? At last, one of those “I'll finish it in this lifetime” stories can be completed.

Updates Monday through Friday. I take weekends off to work on other things.

Important announcement: I want to apologize to everyone. When I was writing Iron-Blooded Rouge last year, my health deteriorated and I had to stop updating. I've tried hard to get back into the story, but it hasn't gone well. I'm now too afraid to start another long novel, so I'm only writing historical essays to recover. To make sure no one has paid for nothing, I've spoken to the website and requested that the book be unlocked and readers refunded.

You should have received your refunds by now. Since I still haven't found my writing rhythm, I don't want to keep you waiting, so I've temporarily marked the story as complete to make things easier with my contract at Jinjiang. I'll resume it once I've found my way back into the story.

That said, I will pick this story up again someday. God willing, I'll find the feeling and motivation to rewrite it as soon as I can. Please believe me: this isn't just a story you care about. It's also a wound in my own heart that won't heal until the story is finished.

The bloody turmoil surrounding the founding of Western Xia, the palace intrigues of the Tangut harem, the political machinations of princes and generals, the power struggles among Song, Liao, Xia, Tibet, the Uyghurs, and other nations, and the vivid, turbulent legend of an iron-fisted empress dowager.

She was the woman Western Xia's King Yuanhao loved for his entire life. She witnessed the founding of Western Xia and kept the kingdom from dying out after a single generation. Her life was full of bloodshed and desire, glamour and strangeness...

Iron-Blooded Rouge, Book One