Lai Weiming

In the tangled web of court intrigue and personal vendettas, Blossoms of Power (百花杀) presents a moment that leaves every viewer scratching their head. Gu Qingshu (顾青姝), a jealous and petty schemer, has twice tried to murder Shen Xihe (沈汐和)—once by provoking a furious princess into throwing a heavy cup, and again by hiring assassins in a forest ambush. Yet when Gu Qingshu’s own carriage careens toward a cliff edge, it is Shen Xihe who orders her rescue. No, this is not a sudden burst of sisterly affection. The two women share no blood, no childhood bond, and certainly no love. So why does the victim extend a hand to her tormentor? The answer lies not in kindness, but in cold calculation, hidden identity, and a debt that transcends life itself. A Hollow Threat Gu Qingshu is, by every measure, a minor nuisance. She survives only because Prince Xin (信) secretly pulled her from the ruins of her family’s massacre in the nineteenth year of Youning. That massacre—the Gu clan’s defeat at the hands of the Fan family—left sixty-odd corpses and one orphan. But Prince Xin did not save her out of charity; he saved her because she was the…