Lotus Rising from the Water

The story was inspired by Ms. Zhang Manjuan's Swallows Flying High.

There are countless palace-intrigue stories on Jinjiang, some of them depicting courtly power struggles so brilliantly they take your breath away.

Yet among all those stories, few explore the loneliness of women living deep within the palace.

I suddenly wanted to write about a woman who has everything: fame, power, and beauty, but lacks one thing above all, love.

P.S. This story was previously published on another romance fiction site.

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