[Doted-on consort and demon empress / palace intrigue / love and mutual destruction / regicide and taking the throne / revenge / childhood sweethearts turned enemies / corruption / a deadly battleground / heartbreaking]
She was the daughter of a noble princess. Overnight, her family was charged with treason, and neither she nor he could do anything to change their fate.
The lucky survivors, Jing Qin and Zhao Shen, concealed their identities and painstakingly bided their time, waiting for a chance to return to the imperial palace.
She was sent into the Eastern Palace as a palace servant and became the Crown Prince’s concubine. She moved cautiously, treading on thin ice, rising from a lowly concubine to the empress who ruled the empire.
It seemed she had avenged herself, but just as happiness was within reach, she discovered an even crueler truth. The struggle for the throne forced her to choose between the husband who “loved” her deeply and the childhood sweetheart who had once fought by her side.
After killing her enemy with her own hands, she had no time to savor the thrill of revenge before a new storm arrived. Her former lover seized the empire, leaving her as a powerless puppet on a lofty throne. The struggle for the throne between her childhood sweetheart and her own son once again left her caught between two impossible choices.
Her son ascended the throne, but regarded her with suspicion, seeing her as a threat and an enemy. Imprisoned in a palace away from the capital, she waited for fate to pass judgment. But her fate could only be in her own hands.
Jing Qin installed her newborn grandson as the new emperor. Seated on the dragon throne, she savored the taste of power.
In the history books of later generations, Empress Wenxi Ling Jingqin was said to have “murdered her husband and killed her son” for the sake of power and ambition. She installed an infant emperor, ruled as regent empress dowager, and governed the realm of Dazhao.
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