A Brilliant Future for YI

At fifteen, she entered the palace by imperial decree. There, she first tasted the tender feelings between a man and a woman, but also endured the endless pain brought by treachery. Imprisonment, water torture, rat bites, opium, frostbite ointment: one torment after another accompanied her into her twenty-fourth year. By then, her family, sisters, and closest friends had all withered and fallen like autumn flowers. Yet just as she was at the end of her rope, with nowhere left to turn, a posthumous decree from Empress Xiaoshen helped her overturn the course of her life... ♥ A strong female lead, serious historical drama, Daoguang's harem, meticulously researched style ♥ The new novel, Golden Veils and Spears, is now available. Its story is broader and more thrilling than this one, escalating from palace intrigue in the late Qing to the struggle to govern Western Xia. I hope readers will support and follow it.