A Tapestry of Splendor

Overnight, Xu Liancheng's father and brothers, including the Northern Garrison General, died on the battlefield.

The Eight Princes rebelled and joined forces to storm the palace.

Xu Liancheng was entrusted with the throne in a time of crisis and became empress.

Wei Jinxiu, the Northern Garrison General's only daughter, abandoned literature for the martial arts.

She became the first female general, too.

She quelled the rebellion, supported the empress, and brought lasting peace to the realm.

In the first year of Fengyu,

The empress's wedding was celebrated across the country for three days.

But Wei Jinxiu set off for the frontier.

From that day on,

Each dispatch announcing victory at the frontier became the greatest wedding gift to the empress.

The story of the empress and her female general supporting each other

became a widely celebrated tale.

Yet no one knew

that the two had been childhood sweethearts,

that they had secretly fallen in love,

that they had promised themselves to each other for life.

And no one knew

that Wei Jinxiu had died on the night of Xu Liancheng's wedding.

Only when she was pierced by a thousand arrows

did she realize that even such pain couldn't erase even a little of the suffering she had caused her.

In the thirtieth year of Fengyu,

the empress, worn down by years of managing the realm, abdicated in favor of the crown prince.

In the thirty-sixth year of Fengyu,

the empress, her hair long since turned white, sat in her chair.

Her cough echoed nonstop through her bedchamber.

The candlelight on the desk flickered.

A breeze blew, and the door drifted open.

She looked up, tears glistening in her eyes.

The girl stood backlit, smiling, as spirited as ever.

"Liancheng, I'm back."

The candle flame flickered in the wind, then went out...

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