Ink washPei Zhaoyue Does Not Kneel
At seven, Pei Zhaoyue watched her grandfather ignore her grandmother's counsel and destroy their house. Ten years of secret tutelage later, she has learned to read the specific shape of every man's shame — and she has a list. When she engineers her debut at the Fourth Prince's lantern banquet, she does not seduce him. She lets him understand that she sees him. And she takes his army, his seal, and his path to the throne — without ever kneeling.
Make one like this: Pei Zhaoyue Does Not Kneel
