She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)

by Shelley Parker-Chan

Chongba had become nothing. If he took my fate and died … then perhaps I can take his, and live. Her worst fear might be of becoming nothing, but that didn’t stop her from being afraid of what might lie ahead. Her hands shook so badly that it took her a long time to undress the corpse. She took off her skirt and put on Chongba’s knee-length robe and trousers; untied her hair buns so her hair fell loose like a boy’s; and finally took the amulet from

Some new hardness inside her answered: I’ll be better at being you than you ever were.

Risk is only risk. It doesn’t make it a certainty.

When all we have are these brief spans between our nonexistences, why not make the most of the life you’re living now?