The Consort Locked Away in the Deep Palace

“You’re only a lowly palace maid, yet you dare seduce His Majesty? I’ll teach you some proper manners!” The Empress’s long, armored fingernails dug into the flesh beneath Lin Ange’s chin as she spoke coldly. She had never wanted to become a prisoner in the palace, yet the Empress mistook her for a seductress and pursued her relentlessly, leaving her life hanging by a thread. The Emperor doted on her and wanted to protect her, but instead he thrust her into the eye of the storm! “Your Majesty, if you insist on driving me to the brink, I will no longer endure this humiliation! If I die today, it will all be over. But if His Majesty shows me mercy, I swear I’ll repay you a hundredfold one day!” She swore coldly to the tightly shut vermilion-lacquered doors. In the torrential rain, she staggered and fainted... But in the end, the doors never opened. Two years later, Lin Ange eliminated every rival power. The court and the inner palace were hers alone! The Empress held a strip of white silk and was overcome with regret, only to see Lin Ange approach with a smile. The phoenix hairpin on her brow, the phoenix robes she wore, every frown and smile made her the most breathtaking woman in the world. This was her new identity: Empress Chongwen! “Your Majesty, you’ve lost...” She walked past the Empress and leaned with a smile against the emperor, supreme ruler of all, her bearing peerless. From kind and innocent to ruthless and merciless, she danced through the imperial palace on a bed of knives... From sisterly devotion to being abandoned by everyone, all she wanted was to stay alive! Driven by circumstance, she had to either stand above all or be buried in a ditch. She was not heartless, yet in the end, she became so...