In her previous life, Lu Yunzhu was married to Crown Prince Mu Yun for seven years and bore him two children before she finally learned that he loved someone else.
And that someone was none other than her younger half-sister, Lu Qingnian. Seven years ago, Qingnian fell into the water, and after waking up she started talking nonsense: one moment she was shouting about equality for all, the next she was demanding to go fight in the northern deserts. She suddenly became capable of composing poems in seven steps and even disguised herself as a man to do business.
Yunzhu didn’t care. She was the legitimate daughter of a general’s household and had dutifully supported her husband and raised their children all these years. Even the emperor praised her virtue. What nerve would Mu Yun have to divorce her?
But who could have predicted how quickly things would change? Half a year later, the emperor suddenly fell gravely ill, and the crown prince seized the throne.
The first thing he did after becoming emperor was brand the general’s household traitors and throw the entire family into prison.
With her family gone, Yunzhu was sent to the Cold Palace three days later, under the pretext that she had offended him. She became the discarded empress, a fate known to all.
Later, Mu Yun made her half-sister Lu Qingnian a high consort. On the day of their grand celebration, Yunzhu was forced to take a drug and went mad.
She spent nine years in a daze. Just as she finally came to her senses, her own son framed her for trying to kill him. Mu Yun flew into a rage, ordered her to be beaten fifty times, and sent her back to the Cold Palace, never to leave again.
The beating left her barely alive. They threw her back into the Cold Palace, and as she lay dying, Lu Qingnian came to gloat. She revealed that she wasn’t the original Lu Qingnian at all, but a soul from another world…
When Yunzhu opened her eyes again, she had returned to nine years earlier, with six months left before disaster struck. This time, she would bring down his dynasty.
