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Yang Huiyue is the most debauched princess among the fifteen kingdoms of the Nine Provinces. She has people comb the streets for men year-round, not to recruit worthy officials, but to swell the ranks of her male favorites. If a man refuses, they simply drag him back by force.

Once the princess sets her sights on someone, no one is safe, not even court officials or sons of powerful families.

The princess has a special residence for her male favorites, the Crane-Taming Palace. The handsome men there come in every variety: imposing, gentle as jade, noble and elegant, domineering and cold. Whatever type you can imagine, the palace has it.

Scandalous rumors about her playing with men are everywhere, from the streets to the alleyways.

In Jiankang, young men are so afraid of catching her eye that they start wearing masks.

Later, the princess raises an army in rebellion and becomes the female emperor of Great Shen.

As soon as she takes power, she overhauls the entire court, appointing all the male favorites from the Crane-Taming Palace as officials.

A depraved princess and a group of male favorites who trade on their looks: the people are up in arms. Great Shen is doomed!

But things don't unfold as everyone expects. The princess ascends the throne amid the prostrations of her civil and military officials. From then on, she reforms the bureaucracy and works diligently for the people. She may be silent, but when she speaks, the world listens.

The most glorious era in the history of Shen begins under her rule...

Literary blurb:

Only when the Jing family was suppressed and her position as empress was revoked did she finally come to her senses. Love is between two people. No matter how steadfast one person is, all that devotion does is build a prison, trapping herself inside and making others resent her.

Simple blurb:

The heroine is the daughter of a powerful minister. The hero is an obscure prince. She loves him, but he doesn't love her; his heart belongs to someone else, his moonlight. Unaware of his feelings, she asks the emperor to arrange their marriage. The hero is forced to marry her because of her family's power. To escape her father's control, he plots in secret, becomes emperor, and makes suppressing her family his first act. He sends her to the Cold Palace and marries the woman he loves.

Later, the hero realizes that the Empress Dowager, his moonlight, and his friends have all been using him. Only the heroine truly loved him without reservation. He is filled with guilt, while the heroine is on the verge of breaking down. To make amends, he releases her from the Cold Palace and gives her the finest luxuries, but she remains unmoved. The hero realizes he has gradually fallen in love with her, but her heart has long since turned to ash. In the end, he has to chase his wife through the ashes of his burned bridges.

The heroine suffers in the first half, and the hero in the second. It really is angsty, not the kind where everything is glossed over and easily forgiven. Extremely melodramatic, absurd, and old-school.

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