Beauty in War

Bok av Zheng Jie
A Beauty in War, with the vicissitudes of the Western Zhou Dynasty as the background, tells the growing history of Bao Si, the female protagonist, during the war among states, who was abandoned after being born, became a young female slave, experienced the blood and tears in a big house, gifted as a tribute to the Zhou emperor Ji Gong Nie after love, hate and separation, and became the queen in the cruel and treacherous palace fights. This is a period of ups and downs and full of suspense in the history of the Western Zhou Dynasty, power alternates, wars continuously occurred, crowded with desires, war is cruel, personal fate and family honor is closely intertwined and linked. This is an epic of ancient women of their tragic life experiences, non-selectable fate and entangled love and painful changes, which created a legend of regret for men and a wonderful flower lighting the history. This is an epic of forging soul, the lover parting forever, the biological mother imprisoned in cold palace, the beheaded young child, rival in love ever as a good friend, she was taken from everything by the relentless wars but adhered to integral personality, a mind weak like water becoming increasingly tough in the baptism of blood and tears. Beauty brought damages to the country, the heroes tearing, wars come one after another, love and hate and separation entangles. All the infinite splendors are full of scars carefully covered behind the veil in one writing; the plaintive harem women who cannot grasp the fate; the nobilities and states struggling for powers...