[Multiple male love interests; the heroine's growth is the focus, but she grows quickly]
Her experiences growing up taught Ning Ruci early on that a woman must stand on her own.
Though she wasn't favored in the Ning household, she could seize the chance to enter the palace and make the emperor her powerful patron.
But years later, her ambition grew. She even imprisoned the emperor and took the throne for herself.
At that moment, a former emperor in the hall tearfully pleaded, “Xiao Ci, I love you so much, and you're the only one I favor in my harem. Can't you give me back the throne...?”
