Gui Li: Prequel to Drunken Beauty

A prequel to the legendary historical novel Zui Linglong: The realm united, the twins never parted. I’ll trade a flourishing age for a lifetime of joy with you. She is a royal princess of mysterious origins, a bewitching beauty deep within the imperial palace. He is the young emperor of the Yong Dynasty, and the radiant hope she has prayed for through three thousand days and nights in the dark of the Mystic Pagoda. She walks amid bloodied blades for the sake of a promise made long ago. With blood on her fingertips and life and death beneath her sleeve, all she wants is his smiling face, like a spring breeze, and his safe and sound return. Are they fated to be no more than two distant stars, forever gazing at each other from opposite ends of the world?