Great Zhou Dynasty.
Shuncheng Prince's Mansion.
Yang Xianglan was born within Shuncheng Prince's Mansion. She was Prince Shuncheng's eldest daughter and highly valued by him. As she grew up, Yang Xianglan first displayed fairly good Martial Talent, standing out among the imperial descendants. Yet compared to that, her talent for alchemy was even more exceptional.
Even Vice Alliance Leader Xu, a Top Alchemist within the Alchemist Alliance, recognized her talent in alchemy and thus accepted her as his disciple.
Yang Xianglan lived up to expectations, becoming the youngest Intermediate Alchemist in the Alchemist Alliance. She was also bestowed the title of Princess Lanyue by the Emperor, making her rather well-known among the imperial descendants.
Under normal circumstances, Princess Lanyue Yang Xianglan believed she would follow in her master's footsteps, advance to become a Top Alchemist, hold an important position within the imperial family, and retain control over her own marriage rather than becoming someone else's appendage.
But then the Crown Prince's rebellion took place, changing everything.
Father King and her master both died, while she was placed under house arrest in the Prince's Mansion. Not long afterward, she was arranged to enter a marriage alliance with the Golden Meng Empire.
At that time, war between the two nations was about to begin. The marriage alliance itself was a conspiracy, yet she had no power to resist.
On the way to the marriage alliance, before they had even left the borderlands, the two nations went to war. She was seized by people from the Golden Meng Empire, who wished to use her identity to leave the Great Zhou Dynasty and sacrifice her to consecrate the banner.
Though Princess Lanyue was unwilling, she had no strength to resist. Their Martial Cultivation was too far apart.
Until, in a forest, she encountered a