She was the greatest female talent in the empire and the highest-ranking woman in the court: Bai Suxuan. One merciless fire and a single accusation that she had burned herself alive to escape punishment sent her back from hell. Three years later, she became Qin Jiu, the notorious demoness of the Tianchen Sect. She practiced wicked arts that defied heaven, groomed young men, seduced the emperor’s uncle, toyed with powerful ministers, brought down a favored consort, and bullied noble ladies... In the face of slander, injustice, and scorn, she had only one response: a bewitching smile. Who could have guessed that beneath this alluring exterior lay the purest, most immaculate soul in the world? Who had turned her from a dignified and graceful moonlit flower into a poppy blooming in the soil of political intrigue, watered with blood? Returning to the capital under the identity of the Demon Cult’s leader, she would upend the world. The man she had loved was long past recognizing her, but had she truly let him go, too?
