One day, she awoke to learn the truth of her birth: she was the daughter the Ji family had abandoned, the family of the current dynasty’s chief minister. To save her younger sister and the rest of the Ji family, she took her sister’s place in an arranged marriage and entered the palace. She became the current emperor’s eleventh empress. The capital was a place of deep waters, where factions jockeyed for power and danger lurked at every turn. She bore the family’s honor and fortunes on her shoulders, with nowhere left to turn, and repeatedly teetered between life and death. Only after she had sacrificed everything for his empire did she finally realize that the greatest revenge was not killing or bloodshed, but love.
