A Beauty Who Topples the World

The founding emperor of the Qilin Dynasty left these words as an admonition: Any woman who becomes an official must remain unmarried for life. This meant that if a woman wanted to serve as an official, she had to renounce the world and submit to its rules for the rest of her life. As a result, the Qilin Dynasty had not produced a single female official for over a century. A three-year pact, and a chance to discover what true love means in this world. At the moment her heart stirred, she could no longer sneer at love. After falling for her future brother-in-law, she was already prepared to make an enemy of the whole world. If he would only promise to be with her, she could abandon the deeply rooted beliefs she had held for more than a decade and fly away with him as a pair. But under pressure from her family and the constraints of social morality and convention, she waited for him to appear amid the storm. The answer she received was that he would give in... For the first time, she gave up without even trying to fight for him, selfishly denying him the chance to ask her to stay. Watching him walk away in the rain, she knew their future together would remain out of reach for a long, long time. When she appeared at the Qionglin Flower and Moon Banquet, she stunned everyone. Her teacher was the chancellor of the realm, second only to The Outcast and holding power over the entire court. Under the system of hereditary succession among officials and their disciples, this meant she would become the future chancellor. To all my dear readers who enjoy this story, please show it lots of support, add it to your collections, and recommend it to others! o(∩_∩)o My other story: Blood Lotus http://read.xxsy.net/info/90866.html Related stories: Sequel: The Empress of an Era http://read.xxsy.net/info/207963.html Extra: Queen of the Phoenix http://read.xxsy.net/info/204229.html