Synopsis
Twenty-five years old, and already carrying the weight of an empress dowager's crown. Behind the curtain of her regency, every faction with teeth was angling for a piece of her — and of the young emperor she shielded. The palace was a place full of people trying to ruin her. Only one man never did. He sat with her in the quiet of that cold, hollow palace. Watched the spring hills with her. Bowed his head to her, and meant it. Among the five chief ministers of the Guangyou era, he stood apart — described as "frost driving clean through…
