Household and palace intrigue. The male lead has been with others, while the female lead has not.
A fictional historical setting. The heroine has no all-knowing perspective and will grow step by step, learning what she needs at every stage until she eventually gains power over the court.
Song Jinhe spent the first half of her life at an estate. In the second half, she was separated from her mother and, despite being the legitimate daughter of the family, sent by her scoundrel father to serve as a concubine's bedmate, all to curry favor with the concubine's brother and help him rise to power.
Bear the concubine a child? No, she decides what happens to her own body! Help the concubine keep her husband's favor? Not a chance!
The princess consort is hypocritical, and the concubine is vicious. Both want to use Song Jinhe for their own ends. But she plays the fool while hiding her claws, using her seeming weakness to make them both suffer one defeat after another. Whether trapped in the back courtyard or confined behind the towering palace walls, she keeps powering up and overcoming every obstacle. But even a hundred days of marriage cannot make up for a lifetime of true affection gone missing.
Faced with the man's furious roar, “Did you never love me, not even once?” she only smiles. “Deception, cruelty, and hurt: which one did you lack? Now I've made up my mind. I truly intend to kill the emperor.”
