The imperial court is a place of bloodshed and peril, where blades clash and schemes abound. A struggle for the throne left countless prominent families in the capital wronged and disgraced. Five years later, she entered the palace to serve the emperor as the daughter of a meritorious official. To sleep soundly on the emperor's bed, she would need more than a keen mind and exceptional talent: she would also have to bury her feelings. She helped the emperor break free from the control of Empress Dowager Zhao and the powerful ministers, and eliminated the favored consort's faction. She rose to become his beloved consort, unaware that she had already become entangled in an even greater conspiracy.
Using herself as a blade, she treaded carefully through the imperial palace. Yet in that man's eyes, she was a pawn, a sharp weapon in his hand to use against the emperor as he fought for the supreme throne. Amid the constant shifts of conspiracy, the only way to sleep soundly without fear was to ascend that supreme throne herself.
Su Yuan never became empress, yet she was the most exalted of imperial consorts. Many years later, beyond the beaded curtain, the assembled court officials knelt. Scene after scene passed before her eyes. She remembered Xie Zhihan, smiling as she accompanied her through the palace gates beneath a blue sky; Yuan Jing's smile in a ruined temple on a bitter winter's day; and, on a rainy night, the purple...
This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any similarities are purely coincidental. Do not imitate.
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