Broken Jade Covers the Land, I Cross the Dust as a Mortal to Reach You

Shen Yanci, the powerful, lame chancellor of the Great Jing Dynasty, was known by all as vicious and devious, with blood on his hands. He had risen to the pinnacle of power by any means necessary. He was the blade the emperor feared most and the scourge every official in court avoided. No one knew that he had spent half his life killing and plotting, all to repay a life-saving kindness from his youth and protect Su Wanyi, the daughter of a disgraced official, hidden deep within the palace and as vulnerable as a drifting weed.

She bore the injustice of her family's destruction and endured in hiding deep within the palace. She seemed docile and harmless, but in truth she was shrewd and resolute, with a concealed edge. Power struggles at court, rivalries between aristocratic clans, and wars on the borders came one after another. Their identities placed them on opposing sides, and fate set them against each other. To love was treason; to stay together was to bring their families to ruin.

He cloaked himself in infamy to shield her from every hardship in the world. She made a blade of her frail body and stood by him as he contended for a vast realm. When political schemes collided with profound devotion, and the fate of the realm entangled their private love and hatred, they saved one another in the depths of despair. Together they braved every thorn, and in the end, with mortal bodies they broke free of fate, and with their deep love they overcame the realm.