Everlasting Joy: Tears of Rouge

Ziwei has changed hands, Sha and Po occupy the life palace, and Mars guards the Heart. The world is about to fall into chaos.

Weiyang Palace, the Murong clan, The Outcast, at the center of the vortex of power.

Outside Qingshan City, a ten-li-long main street rises by a flight of steps. Eighty-one steps lead to a gate tower soaring into the clouds, bearing the words "Weiyang," unchanged for a hundred years.

Her childhood sweetheart returns with his beloved, and love wounds like a steel blade at the throat. The Outcast, she is deft in every situation, yet even the secrets of the stars cannot help her escape her destined tribulation.

A seal dormant for ages breaks open, and hatred swells like an endless sea. Proud and aloof as frost, she is an heir to a renowned sword, yet still cannot escape those blue eyes.

The lover who stood by her through life and death takes off his mask, and love proves as thin and deadly as poison. Surrounded by affection and radiant as the sun, she has unmatched medical skills, yet cannot save the person she longs to save.

A twin-born curse, a massacre that wiped out a family, a crumbling empire: who will rule the world? Who will drink the poison that pierces the heart? The three women of Weiyang, an epic legend. When fate reveals its final answer and strips away its last deception, what choice will they make? I do not wish for the land and the one I love to be lost to each other in the end.

This is a story about growing up, but it is more than just a coming-of-age story. If you are willing to open this sweeping tale of love and hatred, I will await you beyond the blood and fury.