The Female Rakshasa

Everyone in Shengjing knows that Lin Jingzhe, the Marquess Yongning's wife, is the “Female Rakshasa” who once slit open an enemy's belly in the middle of the street. Everyone fears her. Only I, A Yuan, a lowly concubine, know the softness beneath her cold armor. With my vine-like devotion and warmth, I became the only light in her dark marriage.

But the marquess couldn't tolerate me, a thorn too soft to hurt but impossible to ignore. He sent me off in a sedan chair to the violent Third Prince's residence, where I was tortured to death.

My death shattered the last of Lin Jingzhe's restraint. She slaughtered her way through the marquess's manor and the prince's residence, becoming a true Rakshasa and swearing to turn the imperial capital upside down for my sake.

Then she found a girl bearing a mysterious birthmark shaped like a “red lotus.” She was my long-lost twin sister. Our origins were entwined with a buried palace secret and a vast conspiracy…