Frost Falls on a Thousand Rivers

Ye Ningshuang was raised to be a blade for her adoptive father, Shangguan Yun. She gathered intelligence, recruited talent, amassed wealth, and kept in check the eunuch faction indulged by the Empress Dowager. She had thought she was fighting for justice on Heaven's behalf, but someone told her that the truth was otherwise, and that it involved a far greater secret and the grudges of the previous generation.