She was a concubine-born daughter of a marquis's household. Her birth mother died tragically, her legitimate mother framed her, and she was driven to the brink. A carefully arranged political marriage sent her into a grand household that devoured people without a trace, but little did she know this was the beginning of her turn of fortune!
When she is swept into the palace's whirlpool because she looks so much like the late empress, she rises from a low-ranking consort to a woman who holds sway over the six palaces, advancing cautiously and planning for every eventuality. Her legitimate mother's poisonous schemes, the Noble Consort's framing, and the Grand Princess's plots are all crushed by her political cunning. She joins forces with the scheming prince Xiao Jingyan, playing a game on two fronts in the court and the harem, exposing royal scandals, overturning the crown prince's position, and trampling underfoot those who once walked all over her!
From a concubine-born girl anyone could bully to a Noble Consort who rules the realm's women, she uses blood as her blade and schemes as her armor, carving a bloody path through this murderous palace. When the truth comes to light, she discovers to her astonishment that she is the late empress's orphaned daughter, and that the game for the realm had been laid out for her long before she entered the palace...
See how a concubine-born daughter turns the tables and commands the winds and clouds, fighting her way from the inner courtyards to the Golden Throne Hall, until she becomes a powerful consort of her age and shares rule over the realm with the emperor!
The heroine is very smart and will not fall into a self-evident trap when she encounters problems. She is full of difficulties but has been working hard to change and make herself better. She is not a virgin at all and will not be indecisive.