When the chancellor’s eldest daughter falls ill with a cold, Liang Wanqing is forced to enter the palace in her place to serve the emperor, becoming her sister’s shadow and an unwilling stand-in empress.
What awaits Liang Wanqing, now hidden in the palace as someone else’s shadow?
Will she be the one who alone enjoys all the emperor’s favor?
Or will she be caught up in the palace consorts’ schemes and plots over the empress’s position?
No, neither!
It is a journey from stand-in empress to the true mother of the empire.