A Splendid Realm

Swords clash and warhorses charge as flames of war spread across a dazzling, unrestrained age.

Born a hostage, she is far from her homeland, drifting across the world.

She meets the man fate has chosen for her, and they come to know one another. Yet in these troubled times, love is a calamity of tangled feelings, of reunions and partings.

With no choice of her own, she is swept into the maelstrom of four rival kingdoms and five great clans contending for dominion over the world.

A famed and charming scholar, a peerless beauty, and a prince bent on revenge become entangled with her in love and hate.

The Nine Provinces are in turmoil, the clouds shifting in inscrutable ways. The world is a game of chess, every move shaping the endgame.

For her, he guards a kingdom as beautiful as a painting. For him, her dark hair turns to frost and snow overnight.

After countless twists and turns, through ten turbulent years, can she and he join hands to build their realm and look down upon the world...

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An epic romance, a longing that cuts to the bone, a song of farewell amid the flames of war...