The Abandoned Consort of the Cold Palace: The Poison Doctor Goes on a Killing Spree

[Surviving the Cold Palace + Political Intrigue and Twists + Mutual Redemption] She knelt in the snow for three hours, just to get him to look back at her. But the one who came was a masked man breaking into the Cold Palace in the dead of night. After a bowl of poisoned soup, the disgraced consort Liu Rumei was banished to the Cold Palace. Everyone said she deserved to rot in that lightless place for daring to attempt regicide. But no one knew... That bowl of soup was meant to kill the Empress Dowager. And no one knew... Why had the crown prince, a man she'd never even met, climbed over the wall to come here in the middle of the night? “Mei'er,” Xiao Jingyan said, stroking her frozen fingertips, his voice so gentle it made her shiver. “I'll stay by your side until we see this game of chess through to the end.”