The curtain rises on an overwhelming Chinese fantasy centered on a mysterious consort, the "Wūfēi."
Deep within the inner palace lives a special consort known as the Wūfēi (烏妃) — a consort in name, yet one who has never shared the emperor's bed. Some who have glimpsed her say she was an old woman; others insist she was a young girl. The Wūfēi is said to wield strange and wondrous arts, accepting any request that comes her way — from death curses to the recovery of lost objects. Emperor Gaojun s...
