The setting sun slowly sank behind the eaves of Yaoguang Hall. How could I not know? The Great Night Dynasty was already in ruins, with the empire looming outside and corrupt ministers in power within. Father was obsessed with cultivating immortality and paid no attention to state affairs, while my brothers fought relentlessly over the throne. Last year, an unprecedented peasant uprising broke out in Shu. Though it was quickly suppressed, it exposed the Great Night Dynasty as a power that was strong on the outside but weak within.
And I would become the empress of the Great Night Dynasty.
