I can’t take this, I really can’t! She had only just arrived in this strange world when someone ripped her clothes to shreds and warned her not to play with fire! Fine, she would let it go, since she still had no idea what was going on! What? The man she was supposed to marry was the very one who had forced a kiss on her? The next time they met, he even told her to know her place? Perfect. She would settle both old and new scores at once! He wanted to scheme his way into making her the enemy of every woman in the harem? He wanted to flirt with her until she slowly gave him her heart? Fine, she was in for the long haul! A cunning emperor, a bewitching favorite consort, a maid who was neither wholly good nor evil, an unfathomable empress dowager, a refined and scholarly prince, and a mighty general who appeared and vanished without a trace…