Scarlet Heart (Starring Liu Shishi and Nicky Wu)

Tong Hua's brand-new, definitive revised edition from 2020, featuring a new preface. It tells the story behind the story in a parallel world. Zhang Xiao is independent, clever, and quick-witted. After an accident transmigrates her to the Kangxi era of the Qing dynasty, she finds herself in the body of a young Manchu noblewoman named Maertai Ruoxi. It is the forty-third year of Kangxi's reign, a time when the realm is at peace and the world seems tranquil. Yet beneath the facade of prosperity, undercurrents swirl and danger lurks everywhere: palace intrigue, romance, cruelty... Armed with her knowledge of Qing history, Ruoxi is drawn into the struggle among nine princes for the throne, constantly fighting or making peace with fate. She knows how history will unfold and what will become of everyone else, yet she alone does not know her own destiny. Like waking from a dream after wandering through a garden, she must tread carefully at every step, as if walking on thin ice. Who will she meet along the way? Who will she fall in love with? And who will she never be able to forget?