In Beiyang, the Empress Dowager and the Prime Minister controlled half the court. The emperor had ascended the throne at a young age, born with an illness. A renowned expert had once declared that he would not live past twenty.
The Liu family had a daughter, unnoticed and with a life as insignificant as a blade of grass. One day, she was chosen to serve at the emperor's side as a companion in death.
So that everyone might live a little longer, the emperor and this thirteen-year-old girl made a grand plan: overthrow the Empress Dowager and the Prime Minister's faction, reclaim power, and set the girl free to pursue her freedom.
