Yan at the Palace Gate

Love comes unbidden, then sinks its roots deep.

She thought that once she entered the palace, she would be trapped in a sea of intrigue, spending the rest of her life scheming against others. But that had to be better than living in constant fear under her vicious stepmother.

She never expected the emperor, who had climbed over mountains of bones to reach the throne, to cherish her and hold her close to his heart.

Behind the vermilion palace walls were a hypocritical empress, an arrogant and overbearing consort, and maids with silver tongues.

How would she escape danger time and again and ascend to the throne of the Nine Phoenixes?

And how would she walk side by side with the one she loved?