![]() ![]() Determined not to be a victim of the jealousies and foul play, Orchid trains herself in the art of pleasuring a man, bribes her way into the royal bed and seduces the monarch. ![]() The thousands of concubines will go to any lengths to bear the Emperor a son and become his Empress. The world inside the Forbidden City is erotically charged and highly ritualised, but beneath its immaculate face lie whispers of murders and ghosts. Orchid, a beautiful seventeen-year-old from an aristocratic but impoverished family, is pushed into the maelstrom when she finds herself unexpectedly chosen to become a lower-ranking concubine of the Emperor. Trade in opium with Europe is slowly corroding the power of the Ch'ing Dynasty. ![]() It is the final days of the Chinese empire. The thousands of concubines will go to any. ![]() ![]()
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