From Palace Maid to Empress: A Rise Through Palace Intrigue

[Female-led power fantasy + palace intrigue + romance + not both leads' first love + second male lead. The story begins with the heroine and the second male lead, and is somewhat like a romance where both leads are each other's first love, but that won't affect your enjoyment. Aside from embroidery, the heroine has little talent. She keeps a low profile early on, then goes on a killing spree later.]

Su Qingyue is a low-ranking palace maid in the Laundry Bureau. Like everyone else, she hopes to leave the palace at twenty-five, marry, and live an ordinary, peaceful life.

But fate was like an invisible hand, dragging her back into the depths of the palace.

She once loved the emperor, but how many women in the harem didn't?

She knew the man was the exalted emperor, destined to rule over an empire filled with three thousand beauties, yet she was still willing to remain in this cage and spend the rest of her life by his side. She didn't blame fate, because this was her destiny!