Scheming for Glory

A lone soul in another world, adrift in a turbulent age.

She drank Meng Po’s soup and entered the cycle of rebirth.

With a pair of ghostly eyes, she schemes for the realm; with delicate hands, she plots a dazzling future.

Yi Si, fourth daughter of the Duke of Yi’s household, also known as Yi Asi.

In her previous life, she was mistakenly sent to a camp for elite assassins. She mastered eight forms of martial arts, but her mother’s past became her burden, and she died at the hands of her own uncle.

In this life, everything that came before was just part of a scheme. She will not be another person’s pawn. She will be the one who moves the pieces and lays the plans.

They say the fourth young lady of the Duke of Yi’s household was frail as a child and raised in seclusion. Gentle by nature, beautiful and clever, she was sought after by the sons of noble families.

In truth, Asi is ruthless. She drinks human blood, eats human flesh, and will marry no one but the heir of the Yuan family.

She battles her adoptive mother, her half-sisters, the duke, and the emperor, but the one who invited her into this game is the only one she cannot defeat.

Yuan Yuan, the only son of the Prince of Cong, is honored as the heir of the house.

On the day the heir was born, the Prince of Cong lost a battle. On the day the heir turned one month old, the prince was ambushed and left crippled. On the day the heir turned one, the princess consort was humiliated and took her own life.

They say the heir of the Yuan family grew up without anyone to cherish him. The emperor took pity on him and indulged him, granting him honors surpassing those of the princes, but he became a spoiled wastrel.

In truth, the heir is cold-hearted. He spills blood and cuts flesh to lure people into his game, and he will marry no one but Yi Asi.

Their daily love-hate battles:

“You drank my blood and ate my flesh. Where do you think you can run?”

“I belong to myself in life, and I’ll be my own ghost in death. I have not the slightest connection to you, Heir...”

“In this golden age of Great Yuan, I wish only to share it with you!”

“What I want is the whole world.”

“The demoness has taken over. She must be executed.”

“Go ahead and try to kill me a thousand times. Someone will accompany me on the road to the underworld.”

“Asi, can you bear to see me like this?”

“What does the heir’s fate have to do with me?”

Asi swears on the lives of all who love and protect her that she will bring peace to the realm with you.

In the end, all the people of the world are no match for one Yi Asi.

Scheming for lives, love, and the realm, she is caught in the game without knowing it.

If I had another life, I would have no regrets. With my own hands, I would shape a dazzling future.

This is my first novel. I didn’t just want to write a tale of love and hate, passionate revenge, and political intrigue. More than anything, I wanted to portray the joys and sorrows of the era I’ve described. I hope you’ll give my story a chance, come to love it, and love Asi and A Yuan!