In 1603, Paru a young concubine is on the run. A precious jewel, her only possession has been stolen. And now the mysterious assailants are after her life. Friendless and penniless, Paru decides to fight back. Her razor sharp wit and her sensuous charms bring her closer to danger and a chance to start a new life. Meanwhile, the Empire is facing a crisis. An heir has to be chosen. Who will rule the magnificent Mughal Empire? Will it be Emperor Akbar’s alcoholic son – Jahangir – who is intolerant of other religions and infatuated with wine and women? Or his young son Khusrau, who is still a child? The noblemen choose neither. They place their hopes on a prince who has never been seen. The elusive third prince, fathered by Akbar long ago on a battlefield. The only way to find the Prince is by tracking down a precious jewel Akbar had given the mother... Will the Third Prince take over the Empire? Will Paru wrest back what is rightfully hers?

USA TODAY bestseller, #1 international bestseller, and Indie Next Pick Best of 2023 Pick for Autostraddle and BookPage; a Recommended Reading List Pick for Locus; Locus Award Finalist The sequel and series conclusion to She Who Became the Sun, the accomplished, poetic debut of war and destiny, sweeping across an epic alternate China. Mulan meets The Song of Achilles. How much would you give to win the world? Zhu Yuanzhang, the Radiant King, is riding high after her victory that tore southern China from its Mongol masters. Now she burns with a new desire: to seize the throne and crown herself emperor. But Zhu isn’t the only one with imperial ambitions. Her neighbor in the south, the courtesan Madam Zhang, wants the throne for her husband—and she’s strong enough to wipe Zhu off the map. To stay in the game, Zhu will have to gamble everything on a risky alliance with an old enemy: the talented but unstable eunuch general Ouyang, who has already sacrificed everything for a chance at revenge on his father’s killer, the Great Khan. Unbeknownst to the southerners, a new contender is even closer to the throne. The scorned scholar Wang Baoxiang has maneuvered his way into the capital, and his lethal court games threaten to bring the empire to its knees. For Baoxiang also desires revenge: to become the most degenerate Great Khan in history—and in so doing, make a mockery of every value his Mongol warrior family loved more than him. All the contenders are determined to do whatever it takes to win. But when desire is the size of the world, the price could be too much for even the most ruthless heart to bear... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Although he was the prime minister's daughter, he was still bullied by his elder sister. When the emperor bestowed the marriage on his mother, she married him to Ha Yan Mu Rong, but he never thought that he would marry her with a goal, and Ha Yan Mu Rong also had a goal, his goal was to marry Ha Yan Mu Rong so that he could carry the entire Prime Minister's Estate. However, Ha Yan Mu Rong had also succeeded, but Yuwen Xi Ya did not feel too sad, it was just that her feelings were let down, and Yuwen had left the palace.

As the Third Prince's personal maid, the weak chicken Xiao Hua had to start cultivating to protect herself and her master. With the help of a pill, her body was reformed and able to cultivate, along with gaining muscle pains once she started training. Not only does she need to train and discard her lazy ways, but the Third Prince had also sent her out to spy on the strange Eighth Prince that does not exist in the original novel. What the Eighth Prince did to get himself under the Third Prince's radar? Nothing dangerous, if one considers being a very enthusiastic fanboy of the Second Prince, the novel's male lead, was dangerous. Not only that, he had been very hardworking in doing public relations for free to get everyone onto the Second Prince's ship! The Eighth Prince pointed at Xiao Hua. "Why are you not supporting the Second Prince!" Xiao Hua: (・・ ) ? Eighth Prince: "You should know he's the male lead! Why are you siding with the Third Prince that's going to die anyway? Are you stupid?" Xiao Hua: (⊙_⊙) "F...Fellow transmigrator?!"

"Su Xiaoyue, a doctor in her previous life, had somehow traveled to ancient times." At that time, the Emperor had already bestowed her with a marriage. With her modern wisdom, she didn't accept this arrangement.As for the betrothed Prince Luo Xuan, as he interacted with her, he was gradually attracted by her outspoken and straightforward personality, and fell in love with this particular woman.What kind of sacrifice would Su Xiaoyue make for the love between them? What could have happened between them?"

The book is an examination of the apocryphal text known as Book Seven of the Mathnawī, attributed to Rūmī, which has never before been studied. Why was this text was added to Rūmī’s Mathnawī? What were its implications in the Mevlevī centers in 17th-century Ottoman society or in Persian speaking societies in India and Iran? The author has located and analyzed different manuscript versions of the text, discusses possible authors and motives behind its composition: Was Book Seven added on the Indian subcontinent or in the Ottoman Empire? One important aspect of the text being interpreted as Book Seven was a great anxiety over whether Rūmī's Mathnawī had been incomplete, an assumption made by Rūmī's own son Sulṭān Valad as well as by Sufis in India and the Ottoman lands. In addition to a literary examination of Book Seven of Rūmī’s Mathnawī, the study also sheds light on religio-political conflicts between various social groups in Ottoman society in which this text played a major role. By examining İsmāʿīl Anqaravī’s (d.1631) introduction on his commentary, which presents a detailed account of his debate with Mevlevī and Khalvetī Sufis and shaykhs, I argue that Anqaravī claimed authority as the ultimate commentator and Mathnawī-reciter among the Mevlevī Sufis, a claim that was bolstered by his closeness to Sultan Murad IV (d. 1049/1640).

Ve Le's lifelong love is writing books, writing for money After living ten long years, she eventually became famous throughout the capital. However, in the eyes of her mother-in-law, she was just a lowly failure, in the end she only received cold eyes from her husband, was bullied by the concubine, and had to die miserably in the deserted garden. Resurrected, she did not hesitate to pretend to be husband and wife to the general who was rumored to be divorced, and also wanted to take revenge on the whole family.