Ancient Times Short Dramas
80 short dramas in Ancient Times — synopsis, ratings and where to watch.
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Come Back, My Real KingElena is empress, married to the emperor for three years. She believes he is the man who once saved her life, and she believes he loves her. Her cousin sets her up and she is left in a ruined temple, where she ends up in the hands of Adrian, the regent. Adrian was the one who saved her. The emperor took the credit to hold on to imperial power, and he has been holding Elena's father and brothers prisoner. Her cousin had a hand in stealing her medical formula as well. Adrian tells her what he knows, and Elena begins working again, rebuilding her strength and her skill as a physician. She develops a treatment during a plague. She had been a piece on someone else's board and she stops being one, and she goes after her cousin and her husband in front of the court.
Twice Fallen, Twice CrownedThe man who spent a night with Cecilia Vane at a pleasure house in the capital took her for a woman doing it out of greed for money and rank, and he went away with that opinion of her. He was the emperor, in that building by accident, and she did not know that either.
She was there because her father had been accused of treason. The household was seized and he was sent into exile in the cold north, and Cecilia, a sheltered daughter of that house, gave up her name and her standing to perform for money at the largest establishment of the kind in the capital, to raise what it would take to get him back.
Some time after that night she found she was pregnant, and the child was the emperor's only heir. The woman who ran the house learned of it, saw a way to power in the child, and began threatening her, and the threat turned into something that could kill her. A prince heard the story and told the emperor who the woman at the house had actually been. The emperor came for her with very little time left in which to do it.
The misunderstandings between them were cleared up. Cecilia became empress and had her father's conviction overturned, and he then asked to leave the ministry and go back to the village he came from. The emperor travelled there with Cecilia, unannounced and in plain clothes. The relatives waiting in the village took the old man's return for a second disgrace and turned on all three of them.
Buried Alive With Cheating HusbandSong Qingci is the daughter of the Protector General. She walks in on her husband Zhao Jinglou with the Grand Princess Xiao Lingyi and learns from their own talk that the two of them arranged her father's death and pinned it on an enemy state. At the funeral hall she finds she can hear what people are thinking without their saying it, and standing beside her father's coffin she hears the pair of them inside it. She keeps her face still through the rites and lets the household believe she is only grieving. Working with officials who owed her father and with people inside the court, she arranges the funeral so that the coffin will be closed and sealed at a particular moment, with both of them still in it. What follows reaches the Empress, whose position depends on the Princess, and the whole Zhao family, whose standing depends on Zhao Jinglou. Song Qingci means to carry her father's ashes back to his own country and never return to the capital.
I Made Up Your Fall, Empress!After escaping a massacre, make-up prodigy Maria Ziegler enters the palace to revenge on Empress Raina Manne. She allies with princess Rachel Manne and Raina's male consort Shawn Clark, both of whom secretly share the same goal with her. As they plan to seize power, two lustful officials set traps. Can they truly bring down that ruthless ruler?
Crown Snatched, Queen AscendsSierra, the daughter of the Marquis of Dingyuan, hopes to become the crown prince's consort. The one she goes after is Julia, whose father, General Wade, died protecting the emperor. After his death Julia's mother Yasmin took her back to their home province, along with a plaque from the court naming them a family of loyal heroes. Eighteen years later Sierra begins tormenting Julia and has the Wade family's ancestral shrine burned. Julia goes to the authorities with a complaint and is jailed for it. Sierra then takes over Julia's identity, is betrothed to the crown prince under Julia's name, and keeps up the persecution of mother and daughter.
At the coronation Julia tries to expose the switch. She is framed for a crime and sentenced to death.
The Queen's Substitute LoverQueen Catherine believes her knight Elliott died for her throne. Grieving, she takes look-alike stable-hand Adrian as substitute lover. Power-hungry Adrian betrays her with Beatrice, ruins her garden and desecrates Elliott's tomb—until his beauty mark is cut and her delusion shatters. Elliott lives, bitter from war. When fallen Adrian joins William's coup, Catherine crushes treason and reunites with her love.
Hidden Tea Master’s Final DuelAfter five years together, Su Wanrou spends her savings helping her boyfriend Chen Feng's mother. When her father falsely claims Chen's family will get a huge relocation payout, Chen dumps her and flaunts his new romance with Lin Jiao, even taking out a million-yuan loan. His dream collapses when the truth comes out. Desperate, he begs Wanrou to take him back, but she refuses. As Chen faces fraud charges and crushing debt, Wanrou uses her payout to open a café and starts a new life.
The Phoenix Queen: Rising from the FlamesDragon Knight Fina gave her dragon scale to save Prince Damian, only to be abused while a fraud stole credit. She died in battle, yet he wed another. Learning the truth, Damian gouged his heart to revive her, in vain. Reborn as Phoenix Princess Elysia, Fina returns in flame,"Forgiveness? Never. Strip your crown and serve as my guard for life!"
Poison, War, And A PrincessA princess with the power of life is forced to become a killer. She chooses mercy, quells rebellions, and tames monsters with compassion. Her uncle hunts her with poison and war, yet every trap becomes an ally. When a divine curse threatens her, the thousands she saved rise to break it. Can kindness defeat a world built on blood?
Four Times Sacrificed: Reborn to the Seventh LordThe girl travels back to the 1970s and takes over the body of a bullied girl. With her martial arts skills, she defeats villains, unravels conspiracies, gets involved in a treasure hunt, and finally gains both a successful career and true love while guarding the treasure.
Four Times Sacrificed: Reborn to the Seventh LordAfter accumulating a thousand years of merit in the Underworld, the female protagonist reincarnates as the child of an abyssal noble, only to have her soul and demon core sacrificed by her biological mother Mephira for four consecutive lifetimes to frame colleagues and seize power. In her fifth life, she regains consciousness, sees through Mephira’s scheme to frame the Seventh Lord Astaroth using the demon fetus, and actively breaks free from the fetal membrane to enter the womb of Astaroth—who
(Dubbed) Vengeance of the REAL PRINCESSShe transmigrates as the abandoned legitimate daughter and fights her way home to protect her mother. She crushes a rival clan, exposes a treasonous prince, and refuses a president's reward. Her only ambition is to stand at the head of her family. When a woman trades a nation for a single home, can any cage ever hold her?
Crown Princess? No. Game Changer!Given only three months to live, Crown Princess Cecilia stops bowing to fate. She rejects obedience, shatters the virtue code, and fights her way through the palace with unapologetic fire. At the Polo Cup, she reveals the brilliance she once buried, stunning the empire and catching Adrian’s heart for the first time. Can she outrun death… or will love come too late?
Ex-Wife Became My... Aunt?The man the family has written off, the one kept in his rooms by a poison nobody has been able to treat, runs the most powerful spy network there is. Nobody in the house knows it, and the woman who marries him works it out only afterwards.
She has been through this wedding once already. In her first life she married the man waiting at the front of the hall and gave him everything she had, and he took up with another woman, humiliated her and left her to die shut away in a cold palace while her whole family was put to death. She opens her eyes on her wedding day with all of it behind her and none of it yet done.
She throws water in the groom's face in front of the guests, tears the marriage contract in half and says she is marrying the sick man in his family instead. The two of them make a deal. She will treat the poison with the medical knowledge she picked up in the life she already spent. In return he puts his people to work on the ones who ruined her. The marriage places her a generation above her former husband, who has to call her aunt now and serve her, and his mother has to bow to her as well.
The Princess In The BrothelShe was the hidden leader of the martial world. She became a blacksmith to repay a debt. He rose, married another, and sold her to a brothel. She stormed his wedding. He ordered her death. Then the emperor arrived. She was his sister. The eldest princess. Can a princess who once forged iron ever forgive the fool who threw her away?
Shame? I'm Your Only Savior!Forbidden from martial arts, she trained in secret for years. To her family, she was just a sheltered girl. When every master falls to their greatest enemy, she steps forward. The weakest flower becomes their deadliest blade. Can a clan that ignored her ever look at her without shame?
The Poisoned Prince and the Miracle DoctorBetrayed by her fiancé He Jinzhou and cousin Su Xuanji and shoved off a cliff, medical student Lin Ruhua wakes in a new life and is saved by the poisoned Prince Rui, Pei Yu. She trades her skills for protection, breaks the engagement, and exposes a plague poisoning plot. As they close in on a prince’s treason, who will strike first?
My Role-Playing System Made Me a Legend!A modern woman is reborn into nobility and exiled on her first day, but discovers that fully playing a role lets her become the person she portrays. She turns performance into power, escaping impossible situations, defeating enemies, and attracting formidable allies. Each victory draws her deeper into the secrets behind her new family and world.
Widow Beggar, Child EmperorThe emperor wants to crown the brother who saved him, but the brother has died. His greedy relatives steal the widow's home and drag her daughter to be sold. The girl beats the drum for justice, only to face a corrupt judge. As she raises a golden token, can salvation arrive before the innocent are lost?
Made Him, And Broke Him!A genius heiress is betrayed by the three men she raised, so on her wedding day, she takes back everything she gave them. They fall. She rises. A demon invasion brings a hidden guardian to her side. He was never a servant. He was always her equal.
Reborn, I Reject the Crown Prince!In her past life, she loved the crown prince and died with regret. After rebirth, she gives up the position of crown princess and asks the queen to arrange her marriage to her childhood sweetheart. But there is a bigger secret behind it all. Then the crown prince tries to frame them. How will they handle it?
Princess Who Played PoorA princess hides her identity to live as a common wife. Her husband passes the imperial exams and tries to divorce her for a richer woman. His mother and mistress bully her. Then the guards kneel. The crown appears. And the "servant" they mocked is about to remind them what happens when you cross the emperor's sister.
Vengeance of the REAL PRINCESSShe transmigrates as the abandoned legitimate daughter and fights her way home to protect her mother. She crushes a rival clan, exposes a treasonous prince, and refuses a president's reward. Her only ambition is to stand at the head of her family. When a woman trades a nation for a single home, can any cage ever hold her?
Not a Bride, a Blade!Someone inside the Yang army sold out its commander during a campaign in the desert. She was left for dead, lost her memory, and was found by a scholar named Lu Zicheng, who took her in. She lived under a new name, worked as a dancer, and kept him for three years while he studied.
On the day he was made a county magistrate he turned on her. He and Fang Chuchu, the prefect's daughter, drugged her and framed her, and took the golden spear that was the token of her family's command.
Her memory came back. She dealt with Lu Zicheng, recovered the spear, and found her father, the old General Yang, alive. What had been done to her family had been arranged by the Nine Thousand Years, the eunuch who held the court. She joined with the Third Prince, Xiao Han, against him, and was made a general with the defence of the eastern empire in her hands.
Princess They Thought Was DeadYuwen Xinyue was the emperor's favourite daughter, which made her brother, the eldest prince, hate her. She was separated from the court during a hunt as a child and was gone fifteen years. In that time she took the name Bai Xinyue and became head of the Tianji Lodge, an intelligence organisation, living quietly in a small town. She married a scholar there, and when he came first in the imperial examinations and had a career ahead of him, he cast her off. Her father recognises her by the paired phoenix hairpins, and her identity is restored. She uses what her organisation knows to expose the eldest prince's plan to seize the throne, and clears out his faction at court. At a ceremony she meets Jin Yuan, a prince held at the capital as a hostage from a rival kingdom, and an engagement is arranged between them. She comes to care for him before she learns that he is the Sacred King of Xidi, that the marriage alliance is a cover, and that he intends to bring her father's kingdom down.
Sorry, You Came Late!As the unloved daughter of the king, Talia is forced to marry a prince from a savage land, leaving the man she truly loves to be with her sister, her father's mistress's child. On the day of her unblessed wedding, the man she loves is making her sister happy...
No More Vows, Only VictoryLu Xu was a drifter when Chu Zhinan met him. He had helped her mother, and she took him in as her husband. She had been fighting alongside her father since she was ten, and when her father was dying he asked her to leave the army, so she gave up the command and buried her record and moved into the household.
For eight years she put the Chu family's money and connections into Lu Xu until he took the top place in the military examination. Once he had it, he brought a second wife into the house at equal rank. He broke the vow he had made her, moved to take the Chu property, and then moved against her life and the family itself.
Chu Zhinan goes to the court and asks for the divorce. She puts the armour back on and takes up the silver spear. The Crown Prince is in danger and she gets him out, and rides for the northern border to hold it.
Betray Me for a Princess? I'm Done Hiding!Imperial tutor Xie Wanzhao leaves court, hides her rank, and marries poor scholar Song Ci, using her influence to make him the top examination graduate. Once powerful, he pursues a princess by branding his wife a mad servant and permitting her humiliation. Xie quietly dons her tutor's robes again, and before the assembled court strips away the title, fortune, and honor she once gave him.
The Money-Grubbing DuchessRoxy Barton, a greedy yet loyal bandit, just wanted a quick payout from a corpse. Instead, she gets mistaken for the Princess of Meridia and is thrust into a political marriage with the cunning, handsome Duke of Ashcroft, Julian Vance. She needs to clear her debts, while he needs to secure his power. Together, the fake Duchess and the real Duke enter a hilarious contract marriage full of scheming. But the palace hides deadly traps. With the Crown Prince and The Empress closing in, the bloody truth of a 12-year-old disaster relief scandal comes to light. As her secret identity nears exposure, a storm of power, love, and justice sweeps the royal capital.
Who Killed My Princess?!War-forged emperor Leon Hale returns in triumph after three brutal years on the frontier, only to be struck by a thunderbolt, his beloved daughter is already dead. Refusing to believe it, he demands the tomb be opened... but his own kin stand in the way. Funny how grief starts smelling like a cover-up...
His Heir. Her Revenge.Du Ruoxi is carrying a child. The house she grew up in is not her own family's, and the man who raised her has done as he likes with her. The night the child was conceived she had gone to the help of a man who had been drugged, and the man was the emperor Xiao Yan, out of the palace and dressed as somebody else.
The child speaks to her from inside her. What it tells her is how the two of them ended the last time round, in the palace, and she starts working against that. She is put into a royal residence away from the main palace, which looks like being set aside. Xiao Yan remembers the last time as well. He is the one who put her there, and he clears people out of her path without letting her know he is doing it.
In the residence there is the head nurse to bring over to her side, and her sister Du Ruhua turning up to provoke her. Further out there is the Empress Dowager, who means to reach the child with a mother and child gu. Somewhere in this Du Ruoxi learns whose daughter she actually is, which is the general who guards the country.
(Dubbed)My Dead Love ReturnsEmperor Shawn Wright has never recovered from the loss of his beloved Eleanor Reed. However, on her death anniversary, he saw her struggling to survive the streets – now blind and with two children. As the truth finally unravels, can Shawn protect his love, and keep the court safe?
She Fought Alone, Now They Fear Her NameShe wore a mask for ten years. Not to hide her face, but her truth.
They called her nameless, powerless, a ghost in the wind. She let them believe it. Until the day the arena demanded a champion. She stepped forward. No title. No army. Just her fists and silence.
Now every warlord whispers one question: Who is she really?
His Trash, The Throne's TreasureEleanor wants the man she is engaged to. She has loved him for five years, since she came back from the countryside to the noble house whose legitimate daughter she is, and he looks down on her for where she was raised. When the court holds its examination for women officials he sits in judgment, favors the daughter her family adopted, and fails Eleanor over a technicality. The failure sends her into the palace as a bride for the emperor, whom the court calls a tyrant.
In the palace Eleanor works her way into the emperor's confidence, and the two of them go after corrupt ministers and the rigging of the imperial examinations. Her former fiancé comes round to regretting the examination some time after that.
Silent TemptationGeneral Fu Li redeemed the dancer Qingzhuang from the Jiaofang Division. She was actually a spy of the "Zhengming Pavilion". In a series of trials and crises, the relationship between the two gradually deepened. Yunque used Qingzhuang's identity as a threat, but was later exposed as an assassin. Qingzhuang killed King Dongping and exposed his identity, and she and Fu Li faked their deaths to escape. After learning that Qingzhuang was Xinniang whose memory had been altered, the two fell into a pull. There was an accident in the palace, Fu Li came to the rescue, Qingzhuang was threatened, and finally the trap was successfully set up, and Feng Buhui and Yunque were executed. The military governor of Liuzhou turned against him, and the old emperor rewarded Fu Li and Qing Zhuang, and once again held a grand wedding for them. After many twists and turns, the two finally got married.
Reborn to Crush the Fake HeiressWendy was murdered by adopted sister Nancy, framed for plagiarism. Reborn, she traps Nancy into exposing fraud, seizes Smith's Place and cuts ties with her biased family. But Nancy’s not done plotting yet. At the Royal Cooking Competition, there is a deadly recipe switch waiting. How will she turn the tables this time?
Enemy Prince Regrets Losing MePrincess Talia, once neglected and betrayed, chooses to marry a tribal king after being heartbroken by her secret love Adrian who actually favored her sister. Realizing his mistake too late, he rushes to reclaim her, only to find her heart may already belong to another. Will his desperate pursuit rekindle a lost love, or seal his eternal regret?
Back From DeathJulie Lawson's youngest son was the one she died for, poisoned in his place. Sixty years later she wakes in the body of a foster daughter of another household, a girl the family treats badly. She was an Imperial princess before this.
In Huai City she finds that son grown old and very ill, and a grandson running the city. Another grandson, Leon, heads a street gang and is the first person she treats, using silver needles. She works her way through the household, and the illnesses turn out to be poisonings arranged from inside the clan. There is a woman passing herself off as the princess, and an heir who is not the heir. At a gathering in the Imperial hall Julie sets out what she has found.
The Empire’s Mother: Reborn to Save All60 years after her death, the founding empress Evelyn Lorne awakens in the body of a traitor’s daughter. To save her ailing son, now the emperor, she must expose corruption, outsmart scheming princes, and confront a disciple who once loved her. Will history repeat itself or be rewritten?
Diapers, Dynasties, and DestinyThough grounded in the Cold Palace, Elizabeth is actually blessed with luck. So when she's back to court, she becomes a "baby-blessing star," ending the curse of high infant mortality. With incredible wisdom, she revolutionizes the empire with glass-making skills, the skill of abacus, and agricultural techniques...
Poison & ProdigyA palace medical examination reunites two modern people displaced by the same car accident: Dr. Juliette and corporate heir Darren, now a sickly emperor. In the Great Dawn Dynasty, her medical knowledge helps her resist an abusive household and win the court's trust. Together they gather three precious artifacts and confront a prince's rebellion while seeking a return to their own time.
From His Shadow to Her ThroneShe built her husband’s fortune with her own hands—only to find herself trapped in a web of deceit, forbidden love, and bloodstained secrets. When the lies finally unravel, she must choose between mercy and vengeance before it’s too late.
Helpless Mom? Martial Queen!Aria Vale's husband was killed by people who had come for her. She had been the strongest martial master alive and had made a great many enemies in that time, and they got to him.
She put the name away afterwards and took her daughter to the Ford Sect, her husband's school, where the two of them lived as ordinary women and she swallowed what came with that. The girl was forbidden to show anyone what she could do. It held until the Ford Sect was facing something that would have been the end of it and nobody there could act. The girl looked at what was in front of her and said it was less than what her mother put her through in training. Nobody in the sect knew who her mother was.
Bite the Heiress, Bleed as HellA nurse lost the small daughter of the richest man in the region. Years later she admitted what had happened, and he began looking for the girl. The girl had grown up in a poor household and gone into the army.
Elena Carrick leaves the army and comes home because of her adoptive father. She goes with her younger brother to ask another family for a marriage match, and they humiliate the two of them over it. At the engagement banquet she takes the bride herself. Her birth father is there, and in front of the room he says Elena is his daughter.
Back with her own family she keeps quiet about what she can do, and people read that as an opening. She argues down the experts at a treasure appraisal. At a birthday banquet she deals with a man passing himself off as an envoy of the Martial God, whose disciple she is. A marquis's daughter decides Elena can be handled, and the three masters who trained Elena turn up. Later she gets the commander of the Celestial Troops out of trouble, and at Celestial Sea her masters stand with her in another fight.
Unlucky Princess... Or Blessing?The Empress of the Xia empire gives birth to a daughter, and the court reads the birth as an omen of disaster. The infant is carried off to the Cold Palace. A fire breaks out there and burns everything, and that appears to be the end of it. Five years later a little girl called Belle turns up while the Empress is praying for peace, and each of them saves the other. The Empress takes her in as a daughter and brings her into the palace, knowing nothing about where she came from. Belle can move from place to place instantly, and she uses it constantly and without much caution, appearing where a member of the royal family is in trouble and getting them out of it. The palace starts calling her its little luck. She solves so many of their problems, so quickly, that people begin looking harder at the child herself, and the question of who she actually is works its way toward the Empress.
Evil Mother-in-Law? Canceled!The story Zoe wakes up inside is a novel she has already read. She is the mother-in-law the book treats as the villain, the one whose part ends badly at the hands of her cousin and her niece. She also knows what the book has not got to yet. Her daughter-in-law Luna is the daughter a prince lost years ago and is still looking for, and the two small grandsons grow up to be a general and a chief minister. Zoe drops the manner the part came with. She treats Luna well, spoils the boys, and gives no ground to the cousin and the niece, who keep scheming at the family regardless.
Fox Spirit’s Revenge: Sisters at WarWhen Clara Harper rose as the Fox Madame, her sister Kate’s envy turned venomous. Using a wealthy heir, Kate plotted her downfall—until the Fox Spirit Ian intervened. Thirty years later, Clara descends from the Celestial Realm with children, only to find Kate still sowing malice. This time, Clara decides to deliver her final judgment… Beware, this is war!
Sorry, You Came Late!The guard Talia loved was a prince from an enemy kingdom, and he had taken the post to get close to her sister. Talia was the king's neglected daughter and her sister was the child of his mistress, so no one at court was going to take her side.
When the kingdom fell, Talia agreed to a marriage of peace with the leader of the barbarian tribe. Her sister and the prince had tried to have her killed before she left. Living among the tribe she came to care for her husband. The prince changed his mind about her and came after her, and arrived to find her married and no longer the girl he had used.
Listen, don’t piss her off!Serena Vale returns from the war as a general, with the campaign won, and finds her grandfather's family being pushed around and humiliated. She had meant to use the homecoming to find out how her parents died. She was a child then and saw it happen. Fifteen years of service defending the realm came after. The state of her grandfather's household tells her the old case had more to it than she assumed, and she sets about clearing out every injustice she can find, on a course that runs from the rank of general to the throne. She keeps to the rule that the country comes before family, and takes the family's case on as well.
(Dubbed)Wrestle the Night, Kid LordAfter three centuries in seclusion, immortal Lord Aether reincarnates in Aurora City as Luna Lane, a child already close to death. Though trapped in a tiny body, Luna unleashes ancient power to defend the Reed family. When Grace and Leo still die, the failure shatters her faith in the immortality she pursued for centuries.
My Dead Love ReturnsIn this court an emperor may leave the capital in plain clothes, and the empress dowager's word can send a palace woman out of the palace for good. Seven years ago the emperor Shawn Wright lost Eleanor Reed, a lady of the court, who was said to have died.
On the anniversary of her death he travels to Qingzhou in disguise and finds her living among ordinary people. She is blind, and she has twin children who are six years old. A hairpin and a sword he had given her identify her, and from them he learns that his mother, the empress dowager, forced Eleanor to fake her death and leave.
They are ambushed on the road back. In the capital he moves to name Eleanor empress, and the empress dowager refuses to allow it. At the banquet held for the occasion, two women in the court arrange a switch of places and an attempt on the empress dowager's life.
Iron Maiden, Gilded TraitorFor ten years, Xie Weiyang fights under her brother Xie Biping's name to preserve their father's honor, ultimately leading the Northern Pacification Army to reclaim three provinces and eleven cities. The court makes the victorious marshal a golden statue, but her brother claims the glory and frames her when she returns. Weiyang chooses silence rather than destroy the Xie family with the truth—until her father recognizes his daughter in the warrior honored at the temple.
Crown of Two FacesAurora Savoy's husband chooses a false princess over the real one he married. She had concealed her recovered royal identity to preserve their quiet life and help him become a general. His plan to reduce her to a concubine ends her willingness to protect the impostor or hide her own status.
The Reincarnated NemesisYoselin's mother Christina, a master embroiderer, was framed to death by favored Countess Lily 20 years ago. Orphaned at 8, Yoselin later invents colorful silk threads, earning royal favor. After achieving fame, a palace lantern accident hurls her back to age 8—moments before her mother’s murder. Now, with past-life memories as her only weapon, the young girl must outsmart Lily to save her mother… but how?
Wrestle the Night, Kid LordSecluded for three centuries, Lord Aether reincarnates as dying child Luna Lane in Aurora City. From her tiny form, she unleashes arcane power to defend the Reed family. But when failure claims Grace and Leo, she's left shattered. What was the point of an eternity spent chasing immortality if it couldn't even save the innocent?
Wearing My WarpaintGeneral Matilda Jones survives her emperor's betrayal because her husband gives his life to protect her and their unborn child. Hiding in a border city months later, she is asked to lead its militia but has lost the will to command. A northern invasion and the townspeople's desperate resistance force her to confront what is still worth fighting for.
Seducing the ThroneAfter her family is executed and a false charge sends her into exile, former favorite Zoe Wood survives by performing madness. She secretly studies seduction and uses it to regain access to the emperor and court power. Her ascent from condemned consort toward empress dowager hides a patient campaign to avenge her house.
Blessed by the PrinceZanisha Russell, a humble vegetable vendor in the capital, accidentally saves Prince Isaac Russell from an assassination attempt. After that, they become each other’s only source of support. Meanwhile, Zanisha’s son, Mateo Perry, marries into the powerful James family, subjecting her to relentless humiliation and life-threatening danger. When Isaac returns to the palace, Zanisha is crowned Empress Dowager. But the ambitious Princess Jane, hungry for power, begins to weave a deadly conspiracy...
Blades Beneath SilkOnce the cherished daughter of a general, Jill Stock's life is shattered when her family abandons her and the women of their household to the horrors of war. Forced into the shadowed world of courtesans, Jill secretly trains her fellow survivors in the art of combat, vowing revenge. But when her father and the rest return, they demand her death to restore their honor. Betrayed yet again, Jill must fight to protect the women she swore to save...