Blurb 1:
Yan Xingshou, a princess of Southern Qi, was a lovestruck layabout. Every day, she stayed in her residence nursing her health, lying around, reading storybooks, and basking in the sun. But after He Xuemai married into her family, her life changed. She had one more thing to do: admire handsome men as they strutted by.
Ahem, I'm getting off track...
Actually, while basking in the sun, she began chatting about folk stories. While reading storybooks, she found herself wondering what he was reading. While lying around, she started thinking about exercising. She even became willing to accompany her husband to poetry gatherings, lantern festivals, scenic excursions, and disaster relief missions in other regions.
Wait, something suddenly feels wrong.
Why had her conversations with her husband over the past few days become the answers to questions on state affairs? Why had the poetry gatherings she attended suddenly begun lavishly praising her talent for governing? Why had she gone to provide disaster relief in another region? Why were the officials at court inexplicably taking sides with her?
The more Yan Xingshou thought about it, the more suspicious she became. Why did the rebel leader's build look so much like her husband?
His slogan was: Heaven is dead, the female emperor shall rise!
Blurb 2:
Looking back on the legendary life of Empress Yan Xingshou, it was the tale of a lovestruck layabout turning her life around and becoming ruler of an empire.
But people were more interested in the love life of this extraordinary empress. Her husband was He Xuemai, Southern Qi's foremost gentleman. Xiao Ji, the emperor of an enemy state, once publicly declared that he and Yan Xingshou had known each other since childhood, that their love had taken root long ago, and that one day he would marry her and make her his empress.
The most sensational story of all, however, was the love triangle between the empress and Cang Xue, the commander of the rebel army.
Known as the White-Faced Ghost, Cang Xue wore a white ghost mask and black robes, and moved as swiftly as the wind. With a profound sense of righteousness, he longed to save his country, but fatefully fell in love with Princess Yan Xingshou of Southern Qi. In the end, he willingly let the princess pierce his heart with an arrow.
For her role in putting down the rebellion, the princess secured her place as heir to the Southern Qi dynasty.
The two were a perfect match, yet stood on opposite sides. Now they were separated by life and death, a tragedy that left everyone sighing. Many even began to look down on He Xuemai, her nameless, untitled first husband, and insisted that Her Highness should take Cang Xue and Xiao Ji as consorts and divorce He Xuemai.
But no one knew that after Cang Xue died that day, the princess walked back to her room alone and waited all night for her husband.
A month later, He Xuemai was finally forced to return. The princess glared at him with red-rimmed eyes, her gaze full of gloom.
For once, the usually carefree woman was serious as she snapped, "Was faking your death really so much fun, Cang Xue?"
"If I hadn't forced you, would you have stopped being my husband too?"
Theme: A layabout turns her life around
