Embracing the Sun Over Mountains and Rivers

A rebellious, powerful female savior x a devoted, lovesick dog-like man who hides his dark side

Jiang Wan, one of the candidates for Crown Prince, was actually a pawn of the Retired Emperor.

Inside the palace, she was a frail, sickly princess. Outside it, she was a decisive female commander of the capital.

Both identities were carefully cultivated by her imperial grandfather. She was meant to ensure that a prince who had been secretly switched at birth and sent far away could ascend the throne without a hitch.

Her consort, Gong Zechen, the legitimate son of the Gong family of Lingnan, was peerlessly handsome and gentle and obedient, like an exquisite gift sent to her.

Anyone with eyes could see that this marriage was nothing more than a tacit exchange of favors between the imperial family and the great clans.

Jiang Wan remained wary and distant, drawing clear boundaries within their alliance of convenience and always preparing to withdraw.

That was, until the mystery surrounding her mother's death in a sea of flames and the secrets of the imperial family began to surface. She ventured into danger alone, determined to climb Mount Muji, which stood between Heaven and Earth.

During an avalanche, the consort she had thought frail and helpless used his own body to give her a chance at survival.

In the depths of their desperate predicament, his vow burned with conviction. “To me, Gong Zechen, Wan'er is my faith. I still want to see every part of this beautiful land with her.”

Her icy defenses gradually began to crumble under his persistence.

Beyond the snowy mountains, she caught a glimpse of a northern inferno: girls from Xiyou were kept, abused, and exploited like livestock.

It turned out that the Xiyou envoys had traveled thousands of miles to deliver a secret imperial edict as part of an international conspiracy.

Li, the hegemon of the realm, had quietly become a prize in someone else's hands.

She would no longer let others carve her up at will. She would fight her way through, save the people, and rescue Li.

She told the bloody truth to the enemy who had opposed her for fifteen years: her arrogant, domineering elder sister, Jiang Yuchen.

“Without me, you will lose everything too. Because the throne has never belonged to either of us.”

Jiang Wan put aside their enmity and secretly allied with her elder sister, vowing to sever the hands that toyed with their fate and treated women as tools.

But the road ahead was fraught with danger:

Behind her were her imperial grandfather, who had tried to kill her time and time again, and her powerless father, the emperor.

At her side were her husband, whose stance remained unclear beneath his tenderness, and the elder sister who had once schemed against her at every turn.

Before her lay the fires of war between two nations and the suffering of the people across the realm.

Jiang Wan would become a woman who stood tall beneath Heaven. What she sought to overthrow was not only the vast, murderous conspiracy devised by her own family, but also the invisible cage that had imprisoned women for generations.

[Reader's Guide]

① One-on-one romance, happy ending, mutual salvation. The heroine stays smart throughout. The male lead keeps a low profile early on but never holds her back; later, he becomes her greatest ally in her career.

② The second male lead is the main villain. He gets more page time in the middle and later parts, but his conflict with the heroine is purely political.

③ The world is fairly expansive, focusing more on political intrigue than mysteries. Family conflicts take center stage, with conflicts between nations as a secondary thread. The early clues are somewhat fragmented, with many foreshadowed twists.

④ The story addresses the trafficking of women and the hardships women face.

Coming soon: Imprisoning Him as My Minister

Blurb:

A deranged female demon queen x a proud, cunning beauty

The Xiyou royal family is corrupt and inept, and the kingdom is on the verge of collapse. Two powerful factions are watching like hawks.

The Yin clan of the Miaoyin Pavilion has been plotting for three generations to seize power.

But his master, Yin Wuyou, died of illness before their plans were complete, leaving him alone to manage the mess.

He needed an ally, and she happened to come along.

He taught her political strategy and how to kill.

He said her appearance had to live up to her ambition.

She believed him and let him shape her into the person he wanted, one cut at a time.

One day, by chance, she discovered that his secret chamber was filled with portraits of her.

She thought they were in love with each other.

But after she lost herself to passion, she learned that he had never seen her at all.

The face he saw was that of his master, Yin Wuyou.

Only then did she understand that she was merely a stand-in for another woman.

But she was no longer the ant kneeling at his feet. The power she had cultivated had already flourished and spread far and wide.

Power can easily make a person lose sight of who they are, but she chose to be herself again.

She burned everything that belonged to that woman, then imprisoned him in a lofty tower, punishing him day and night.

Outside, she burned, killed, and plundered, committing every imaginable evil.

At home, she tormented him until he begged for mercy.

*

In the midst of their lovemaking, he suddenly demanded, “You've got me already. What more could you want?”

She lifted his chin. “What are you? What I want is the whole world! I want you to watch me conquer what you and that woman spent your lives yearning for but could never have!”

But he only curved his lips into a smile. “The thing I've yearned for all my life... I've already got it.”

“...”

“You gave me what I wanted, something she could never give me, right here and now.”

Theme: To build anew, first break the old