how to avoid the Empress wrath and discover her secret
11 parts Complete MatureIn a realm where shadows whisper treason and the throne is carved from bones, Emperor Lièxíng-the Dragon of a Thousand Curses-rules with a grip that chokes the light from the world. His cruelty is legend, his paranoia a blade honed by betrayal. Yet when Shuyun, the Governor's daughter, steps into his court, veiled in secrets and defiance, even the tyrant's iron heart falters. Her eyes hold storms. Her smile cuts deeper than his swords. And her first words to him are not a plea, but a riddle: "You summoned a bride, but what if you've woken a ghost?"
This marriage is no alliance-it's a trap woven in silk and starlight. Shuyun's past is a mosaic of buried truths: a childhood marked by an eclipse foretold in forbidden scrolls, a mother who vanished into myth, and a name the empire's oldest priests whisper only in fear. The Governor's loyalty hides a debt darker than blood, and Lièxíng's advisors warn of a legend-a queen who walked through fire and returned changed.
But the emperor, cursed by his own hollow crown, cannot resist the enigma draped in his bedsheets. Why do the palace mirrors shatter when Shuyun passes? Who leaves cryptic petals-black lilies, symbols of a forgotten rebellion-on their chamber threshold each dawn? And what pact binds her to the phantom haunting the palace's western wing, where even the guards refuse to tread?
As the court simmers with schemes and the stars align toward a cataclysm foretold, Lièxíng and Shuyun engage in a knife-edged dance of deception. Every touch is a lie. Every vow, a blade poised to strike. She unravels him-thread by thread-with questions that ignite forbidden memories: "Why do you fear the dark, Emperor? What claws at your dreams?"
The empire trembles on the edge of a secret that could drown it in ash. Is Shuyun a saint cloaked in sin, a vengeance sworn on a cursed dynasty, or something older-something the gods themselves buried? And when the final mask falls, will the Dragon Emperor kneel... or burn?