The Lady Who Never Bows

At age seven, Pei Zhaoyue watched her grandfather ignore her grandmother's warning and ruin their household. After ten years of quiet, disciplined training, she has learned to read the exact nature of every man's shame, and she keeps careful record of it. When she stages her debut at the Fourth Prince's lantern banquet, she doesn't try to charm him. She simply lets him understand that she sees through him. And she takes his army, his seal, and his path to the throne, all without ever kneeling.