[One woman, multiple partners + palace and household intrigue + competing suitors + transmigrate into a book + groveling-to-win-her-back] Gu Qinghua, a modern career elite, transmigrates into a cannon-fodder character after making a flippant joke about a cheesy third-rate novel. Since she's already here, she'll crush her rivals, reshuffle the deck, and start over. At first, she is fifteen, serving at the ruler's side, passionate and pure-hearted, and manages to make him stop in his tracks. He willingly loses himself in her: “I've given you my heart and the phoenix throne. Won't you take pity on me?”
She smiles, radiant and lovely, then turns to face the sinister guard who vaults over the wall and slips into her room beneath the moonlight. Rubbing the fortune bead on his wrist, he looks at her with bloodshot eyes and humble devotion. “No matter what circumstances I find myself in, you are the only wife I have ever chosen.”
On the shores of the Eastern Sea, in a secluded courtyard, the transformed young helmsman kneels and bows his head, his voice full of longing: “You carry a lamp to guide me toward dawn. I'll carve out a path to life for you, even if it costs me my life.”
In the splendor of the Golden Hall, the murderous tyrant gently takes the edge of her sleeve, vying desperately with the others: “You are the cure I've searched for across countless mountains and rivers. You won't get away.”
Later, she takes the plot too far, and everything goes off the rails. Men and women alike are drawn to her. She raises an arm to stop the men from fighting openly and scheming against one another, insisting with heartfelt sincerity that they're all good people. “Don't make a fuss. Harmony brings prosperity.”
This novel is not a one-couple-only romance. The early story focuses on palace intrigue. The heroine is a flirtatious, skilled actress who works hard to rise to the top and wants only power and wealth.
