From Palace Maid to Empress: She Relishes Throwing the Harem into Chaos

[Harem and household intrigue + golden finger + sweet romance + adorable children]

Jiang Zhiyue’s fiancé, Crown Prince Zhaoyi, died suddenly just three months before their wedding.

Jiang Zhiyue could only think: Why do all these wretched things happen to me?

To make sure she didn’t end up losing out, Jiang Zhiyue gritted her teeth, glanced at all those awful people who hoped she would die too, and turned toward the palace.

She didn’t become a concubine to the old emperor, but a palace maid. Still, she wasn’t about to fall behind in the palace intrigues. During her long years in the palace, she set herself a few goals:

1. Find out the truth behind Crown Prince Zhaoyi’s death.

2. Help one of her own take the throne as empress.

3. Throw the imperial harem into chaos and anger the old emperor to death.

4. Gather adorable children.

5. Be The Outcast, above one and below ten thousand.

So she devoted herself to helping the palace beauties compete for favor, coaching them step by step in how to wreak havoc in the harem, while gathering every adorable little child in the palace into her care.

Who knew that, without even trying, she would leap right over the throne of empress and become the female emperor who ruled the realm?

And along the way, she accidentally caught the attention of that sickly young heir from Qingzhou.

Much, much later, she woke early, rubbed her aching waist, and cursed, “Who told me you wouldn’t live past twenty-five?!”