My mother was a maid in the cold palace, but she helped my father ascend to the throne.
On the day he ascended the throne, my father made the prime minister's daughter the queen, and only granted the title of junior to my mother.
My father said: "Jin Niang, I am the emperor."
"You are of low status and I cannot give you a high position."
So my mother guarded the four-sided courtyard and never fought or grabbed it.
My father thought that my mother's forbearance was understanding, and the queen thought that my mother's retreat was due to fear.
They never took my mother and I seriously.
In this way, in the bloody chaos of the court and the harem, my mother avoided all open and hidden arrows and taught me to be unparalleled.