Tales of the Five Lands

The Five Continents resemble a pear blossom, with Huangcheng at their center and ruling over the realm. Mu Bing, an unwanted adopted daughter of the Mu household, never imagined she would one day become Her Majesty the Empress. It was Feng Yu, regent of Huangcheng, who made Mu Bing into Huang Bing. But Feng Yu was both the cause of her rise and her downfall. The man who personally placed her on the throne also dragged her down into hell. Liming was once the most powerful feudal monarchy on the Five Continents. But all things decline after reaching their peak. After Emperor Ping of Liming, the Sixth Prince and the Crown Prince stood as rivals, and Liming split into Northern Li and Southern Ming. Su Lingyu somehow transmigrated into the second daughter of Southern Ming's Grand Chancellor. On her very first day in this new world, she was captured while trying to elope with her childhood sweetheart. Her marriage to the legendary Prince Qi, Cui Mingyuan, marks only the beginning of the mystery surrounding her birth and her climb to the top... Huangcheng has two princesses. As Empress Huang Yan lies gravely ill, the forces of the elder princess, Huang Yuan, and the second princess, Huang Ling, are evenly matched, and the struggle for the throne grows ever fiercer. Then Huang Bing appears out of nowhere and steals the prize, defeating them both. For the first time, a princess who would normally take a consort is instead sent abroad as a bride to secure an alliance. The proud and confident elder princess is married off to Northern Li, where she becomes a beloved Imperial Noble Consort. By contrast, Huang Ling, married into Southern Ming, fares rather worse. The Southern Emperor is headstrong and willful. At the Changshan Autumn Alliance, Consort Ling's true identity is exposed, revealing the awkward truth behind the false princess who was switched at birth. As the daughter of a disgraced former Crown Princess of Huangcheng, she is even less welcome in the Southern Emperor's eyes, and he has her sent to the Cold Palace. But who would have guessed that Consort Ling would leave behind a letter of divorce and escape the palace?