.jpg "The Broken Phoenix A loyal scholar faces ruin at Princess Zhenhua’s infamous banquet, risking everything to save his people—while his betrothed waits, hope and dread entwined")
The Broken Phoenix
Princess Royal Zhenhua had claimed yet another victim—a promising young scholar, the latest in a long line of ruined men. This time, the unfortunate soul was Jiang Wenhai, my betrothed.
Wenhai was not only renowned for his intellect, but also for his unwavering loyalty to the realm. He carried the hopes of his family and the country on his shoulders, always striving for the greater good.
On the eve of the grand banquet that Princess Zhenhua had arranged in his honor—a banquet that, in the capital, was whispered to be a gilded trap—Wenhai had clasped my hands with a gentle firmness.
“Qiaolan, wait for me at home. I promise I’ll return. This time, I’ll persuade the Princess to open the granaries and bring relief to the starving people.”
His eyes, always clear and resolute, shone with a stubborn hope. He believed that even the most extravagant and capricious royal could be moved by reason and compassion.
But the palace was a world of hidden daggers. The so-called Qionglin Banquet was infamous among the scholar-officials: a place where the Princess Royal’s favor could turn in an instant, and where a single misstep could mean ruin. Still, Wenhai, with his sense of duty and youthful idealism, marched in as if he could change the world.
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