Character Index

Ashina: Personal name Ibilga, Kayla's wife and the princess of the Eastern Turkic Khaganate.

Housekeeper Li: Kayla's loyal servant, previously acted as one of the few people who helped Wenyuan.

Sir Yang: An old eunuch in service of the Emperor.

Derin: A middle-aged woman, she is Ashina's lady-in-waiting and serves as a mother figure.

Sun Zhong'e: A middle-aged woman who is talented in both fighting and administration, one of Kayla's retainers.

Zhou Hong and Zhou Yong: The First and Second Prince who were demoted to commoner status. They were murdered very recently.

Empress Gongsun: The deposed Empress and the mother of the First and Second Princes. Like most Empresses, she was the Emperor's official spouse since they were both quite young, and thus has a high degree of familiarity with him, and her family also played a helping role in his coronation. However, as her family grew too greedy and powerful, the relationship between her and the Emperor fell apart.

Lady Lin: A blind divinator who had worked with the Imperial Princess to transmigrate Kayla into this world.

Zhou Ying: The Emperor and the most powerful person in the country. The price he pays for that is to never be able to trust a loved one's intentions towards him.

Li Que: A Senior Investigator in the Bureau, Kayla's supporter.

Captain Jiang: A young Imperial Guard who previously went North with Kayla.