Jingtang Crossing

Li Tang lost her mother as a child and hid her talents for sixteen years. Only when the elder sister who loved her most died did she suddenly realize how foolishly wrong she had been. In this cage where people devour one another, gentleness is the most useless thing of all! Her father, seeking power, sent her as a concubine to an old prince who was paralyzed from the waist down and twisted in the mind. Her stepmother, for the sake of profit, could just as easily frame her for having an affair. Unwilling to become a pawn and determined to avenge her loved ones, she stumbled into the orbit of Pei Xuandu, the most powerful eunuch in Great Qian. On a snowy, deserted street, she risked everything to stop his carriage. “I’ll trade my life for a marriage contract from the Grand Eunuch. Please marry me!” At first, he gripped her chin and said coldly, “If you want to use me as a stepping stone, you’d better prove you’re worthy.” Later, she plotted her way forward, avenging her elder sister and her birth mother. Just as she was ready to leave and spend the rest of her life with a good man, he wrapped his arms around her from behind, his voice choked with tears. “Little Tang, please don’t go...”