Synopsis and Starting Chapter Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41: Chpater 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44: Chpater 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
Chapter 67
Chapter 68
Chapter 69
Chapter 70
Chapter 71
Chapter 72
Chapter 73
Chapter 74
Chapter 75
Chapter 76
Chapter 77
Chapter 78
Chapter 79
Chapter 80
Chapter 81
Chapter 82
Chapter 83
Chapter 84
Chapter 85
Chapter 86
Chapter 87
Chapter 88
Chapter 89
Chapter 90
Chapter 91
Chapter 92
Chapter 93
Chapter 94
Chapter 95
Chapter 96
Chapter 97
Chapter 98
Chapter 99
Chapter 100
Chapter 101
Chapter 102
Chapter 103
Chapter 104
Chapter 105
Chapter 106
Chapter 107
Chapter 108
Chapter 109
Chapter 110
Chapter 111
Chapter 112
Chapter 113
Chapter 114
Chapter 115
Chapter 116
Chapter 117
Chapter 118
Chapter 119: 第119章
Chapter 120
Chapter 121
Chapter 122
Chapter 123
Chapter 124
Chapter 125
Chapter 126
Chapter 127
Chapter 128
Chapter 129
Chapter 130
Chapter 131
Chapter 132
Chapter 133
Chapter 134
Chapter 135
Chapter 136
Chapter 137
Chapter 138
Chapter 139
Chapter 140
Chapter 141
Chapter 142
Chapter 143
Chapter 144
Chapter 145
Chapter 146
Chapter 147
Chapter 148
Chapter 149
Chapter 150
Chapter 151
Chapter 152
Chapter 153
Chapter 154
Chapter 155
Chapter 156
Chapter 157
Chapter 158
Chapter 159
Chapter 160
Chapter 161
Chapter 162
Chapter 163
Chapter 164
Chapter 165
Chapter 166
Chapter 167
Chapter 168
Chapter 169
Chapter 170
Chapter 171
Chapter 172
Chapter 173
Chapter 174
Chapter 175
Chapter 176
Chapter 177
Chapter 178
Chapter 179
Chapter 180
Chapter 181
Chapter 182
Chapter 183
Chapter 184
Chapter 185
Chapter 186
Chapter 187
Chapter 188
Chapter 189
Chapter 190
Chapter 191
Chapter 192
Chapter 193
Chapter 194
Chapter 195
Chapter 196
Chapter 197
Chapter 198
Chapter 199
Chapter 200
Chapter 201
Chapter 202
Chapter 203
Chapter 204
Chapter 205
Chapter 206
Chapter 207
Chapter 208
Chapter 209
Chapter 210
Chapter 211
Chapter 212
Chapter 213
Chapter 214
Chapter 215
Chapter 216
Chapter 217
Chapter 218
Chapter 219
Chapter 220
Chapter 221
Chapter 222
Chapter 223
Chapter 224
Chapter 225
Chapter 226
Chapter 227
Chapter 228
Chapter 229
Chapter 230
Chapter 231
Chapter 232
Chapter 233
Chapter 234
Chapter 235
Chapter 236
Chapter 237
Chapter 238
Chapter 239
Chapter 240
Chapter 241
Chapter 242
Chapter 243
Chapter 244
Chapter 245
Chapter 246
Chapter 247
Chapter 248
Chapter 249
Chapter 250
Chapter 251
Chapter 252
Chapter 253
Chapter 254
Chapter 255
Chapter 256
Chapter 257
Chapter 258
Chapter 259
Chapter 260
Chapter 261
Chapter 262
Chapter 263
Chapter 264
Chapter 265
Chapter 266
Chapter 267
Chapter 268
Chapter 269
Chapter 270
Chapter 271
Chapter 272
Chapter 273
Chapter 274
Chapter 275
Chapter 276
Chapter 277
Chapter 278
Chapter 279
Chapter 280
Chapter 281
Chapter 282
Chapter 283
Chapter 284
Chapter 285
Chapter 286
Chapter 287
Chapter 288
Chapter 289
Chapter 290
Chapter 291
Chapter 292
Chapter 293
Chapter 294
Chapter 295
Chapter 296
Chapter 297
Chapter 298
Chapter 299
Chapter 300
Chapter 301
Chapter 302
Chapter 303
Chapter 304
Chapter 305
Chapter 306
Chapter 307 - 307 Chapter 307
Chapter 308 - 308 Chapter 308
Categories Genre: All, Drama, Historical, Josei, Ongoing, Romance Status: Ongoing Alternative names: 凰权, 天盛长歌, ______
Total Chapters in book: 308
Estimated words: 438270 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 2191(@200wpm)___ 1753(@250wpm)___ 1461(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 438270 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 2191(@200wpm)___ 1753(@250wpm)___ 1461(@300wpm)
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Chapter 53
Translator: Aristophaneso
After the Crown Prince failed to capture the Imperial Palace, he was gradually forced back to his Eastern Palace. The Tian Sheng Emperor wanted to keep the fighting contained to this area, preferring to stain the Eastern Palace than allow blood to be spilled in the Zhao Hua main palace.
At the moment, the Emperor seemed very calm, and was playing Go with Feng Zhiwei in a large tent in the middle of camp. Feng Zhiwei would win one game after losing two, and the Emperor was content.
Military reports were brought in from time to time, and the Tian Sheng Emperor would read each with an indecipherable expression. His eyes were calm in the candle light, and every wrinkle on his face seemed furrowed with experienced.
Feng Zhiwei’s heart was chilled, like the clear-jade Go piece she held in her fingers.
The Imperial Family had been sucked into an abyss.
The two played Go late into the night until a galloping horse broke the tranquility of the night. A voice could be heard crying out for the Emperor, and though the Tian Sheng Emperor remained sitting and played his piece, he seemed to lose control of his strength and shook the table, causing the candle’s flame to shiver and wane.
Feng Zhiwei silently sighed, stood, and saluted. “This Minor Minister cannot compete, Your Majesty, mercy!”
The Tian Sheng Emperor smiled and swept the Go pieces together. Feng Zhiwei begged leave, but was interrupted by a sigh as she retreated to the door.” Let us hear it together.”
Her heart jumped, but she could not refuse, so she lowered her eyes and bowed. “Yes.”
Feng Zhiwei glanced upwards and saw the Emperor’s weary eyes, and suddenly she was brought back to that day when she had watched from behind the screen as the princes attacked Ning Yi. That day, the Emperor had worn the same look.
A sealed military report was presented, and the Tian Sheng Emperor broke the seal. His eyebrows shook, and he angrily slapped the table.
“Bastard!”
No one knew what kind of madness the Crown Prince had descended into, but he had brought in artillery equipment to bring down the walls of the Eastern Palace. This palace was also known as the Ming Yi Palace, and had originally been part of the Imperial ground and had been symbolically isolated by newly erected walls.
This explosion allowed him to advance in his desperation, and opened up a path into the Imperial Palace. The Crown Prince’s surviving guards and the soldiers of the Shu Wei army already knew their miserable fates, and burst forward ferociously, burning and killing as they went, even seizing the Tenth Prince and the Shao Ning Princess as hostages, howling for the Emperor to give justice.
The Emperor’s slapped knocked the candle over and it soon rolled across the table, lighting the military report on fire. In smoke, the Tian Sheng Emperor looked furious —he thought his son only had mediocre courage and would not venture anything outrageous, and had thought that Shao Ning’s close relationship with the Crown Prince might help her persuade her brother. He had intentionally left his daughter behind, but now the Crown Prince had been so enraged that he had not even spared his own little sister!
Several old ministers rushed to the tent, faces shocked at the news. No one tried to excuse the Crown Prince’s inexplicable boldness, and they could only say that man’s mind was an unpredictable thing, and that the Crown Prince had despicable men surrounding him, lamenting that the Crown Prince should be such an unreasonable disappointment after His Majesty had bestowed such favor onto him.
Feng Zhiwei watched calmly, thinking back to that scion of the Eastern Palace’s Great Secretariat, the young master Yao who had had his finger broken by Gu Nanyi. She had seen him by Ning Yi’s side several times.
The Tian Sheng Emperor raged, gradually calming down. Finally, he spoke quietly. “Mister Wei.”
It had come to this... Feng Zhiwei sighed silently, but she could not avoid the task. After being pulled so quickly from Qing Ming Academy and then summoned to accompany the Emperor in a military camp, she had hoped that the ten thousand soldiers at the Emperor’s side would mean that she was not needed, but now this surprising matter had happened.
Young Master Gu should not have revealed his hand that day, for it would not be forgotten.
A quarter of an hour later, a thousand Hu Wei soldiers stood ready to depart as Feng Zhiwei unwillingly climbed atop a horse, coaxing Gu Nanyi. “Let’s go get some alcohol.”
Young Master Gu already disliked climbing out of bed in the middle of the night, and immediately demanded, “Same as that day’s.”
“Chunyu Meng has it, I will bring you to him.” Feng Zhiwei replied.
Young Master Gu seemed pleased, and reached out a hand to grab a piece of grass, broke it in two, and handed her half as a reward.
Feng Zhiwei took a bite — bitter.
Holding the bitter grass in her lips, Feng Zhiwei bounced atop the horse as they moved out, thinking back to the Sheng Tian Emperor’s parting words. The immeasurable and ever calm Emperor had had worry in his eyes as he earnestly urged her again and again, “You must save the princess.”
She had not thought that the Tian Sheng Emperor might actually have a father’s heart for Shao Ning; perhaps in the Ning Imperial Family, there remained some last ties of kinship?
The horses rushed to the city. Dijing was on lockdown, and the Hu Wei Army was stationed at every Yamen throughout the Imperial City. This army had been the Tian Sheng Emperor’s command when he had been a mere royal relation, distantly tied to the Da Cheng Dynasty. Now, the force was led by Commander-in-Chief Xu Yuanliang and Deputy Commander Chunyu Hong, both descendants of founding ministers with illustrious contributions to the dynasty.
Smoke billowed from the West Gate, and shouting and clashing shook the skies. Ning Yi and Xu Yuan Liang had received an Imperial Edict to fight the remainders of the Crown Prince’s armies, and had the Crown Prince himself surrounded by the Tian Bo Pagoda at the Southern Palace where he was trapped with Shao Ning and the Tenth Prince.
Feng Zhiwei sat on her horse, hands tucked in her sleeves, looking over at this bloody and fiery corner of the Imperial City. The dark red glow flickered over her face and eyes, giving her face a shimmering, watery glint.
She did not have the thousand Hu Wei soldiers join the battlefield, and did not send Gu Nanyi to rescue the hostages. For now, she quietly waited.
After some time, Ning Yi rode over as she expected, silently stopping by her side.
The man and woman pair sat silently, turning to look at the bloody battle.
“Some people cannot be allowed to live.” After a long moment, Ning Yi slowly opened his mouth.
“Some people also cannot be allowed to die.” Feng Zhiwei smiled. “For instance, the hostages.”
“You can rescue Ning Ji.” Ning Yi furrowed his brows. “This is enough for His Majesty.” He stopped, and then calmly continued. “I can help you.”
Feng Zhiwei believed his words, but did not reply. This was the first time she could negotiate an exchange of favors with Ning Yi, and her heart seemed to chill.
A few words would determine the outcome of lives, and though it was natural for Ning Yi to face this without trepidation, how was she herself facing it so calmly?
The Old Emperor’s heartlessness; Prince Chu’s hidden depths, and since she herself had entered the fighting ring, her first care could only be herself.
And it turned how that she was naturally a heartless being.
“Do not disappoint me.” Ning Yi’s smile was beautiful in the dark, shifting night. “Or else you will despair.”
The smile was full of meaning, and the dark eyes above them unreadable.
Feng Zhiwei flicked her horse’s reigns.
“Don’t make push me to despair.” She returned a smile.”
“Or else I will be crazy.”
She approached, stopping at the outermost layer of the troops surrounding the Tian Bo Pagoda. The Crown Prince was putting up stiff resistance, but with the military forces Ning Yi had, it would be easy to conquer the building, but in order to spare the rats to save the dishes, Ning Yi held back, choosing to harry the Crown Prince’s forces, slowly tearing away at his heart until he showed his final madness and was driven to a final gambit. In Ning Yi’s eyes, it would be best if Shao Ning was taken along and died with him.
If she did not guess wrongly, Ning Yi had eyes and ears among the Crown Prince’s trusted followers. The man had countless hidden cards to play, and the negotiation just now had only been because he was worried she and Gu Nanyi would interfere with his plans.
If it weren’t for the fact that the Tian Bo Pagoda was open on all four sides with everything in plain view, the Crown Prince and Shao Ning would have long since been killed.
Total Chapters in book: 308
Estimated words: 438270 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 2191(@200wpm)___ 1753(@250wpm)___ 1461(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 438270 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 2191(@200wpm)___ 1753(@250wpm)___ 1461(@300wpm)
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