One was Xifeng Bright Moon, and the other was Princess Peacock. Qian Du and Cui Xiaoxin had never been close, yet they knew of each other's existence.
Just like the most supreme experts, just like the brightest stars. Everyone in the world knew they existed.
The most beautiful women were the same.
The name of Xifeng Bright Moon had long since spread far and wide. It was known not only throughout the Xifeng Empire—even Ying Qian Du, far away in the Peacock Dynasty, had heard of her. However, Qian Du had never imagined that one day the two of them would become connected.
And that their connection would be because of a man.
Cui Xiaoxin had fallen in love with the Cold-Clan youth Li Mu Yang in Jiangnan City. The matter had caused a huge stir in the Chronicles of Tiandu, and even the death of her own kinsman, the Chief Historian of the Bright Mirror Bureau, Cui Zhaoyun, had been connected to it. Naturally, this news had also reached the Peacock Dynasty.
The Peacock Palace also had a special institution like Xifeng's Bright Mirror Bureau, helping the Peacock imperial family monitor the world and inspect the Nine Nations. Qian Du was the Grand Princess of the Peacock Dynasty and the future Peacock Empress, so she naturally had to sort through and examine the duties of these institutions and the intelligence they gathered and reported. The purpose was to cultivate her awareness of the bigger picture from childhood and make her thoroughly understand her opponents.
At that time, Qian Du merely admired Cui Xiaoxin—the admiration of one beauty for another, with nothing else involved.
What truly made Qian Du curious about Cui Xiaoxin began when she met Li Mu Yang while studying at Starry Sky Academy. She became curious about