Shen Qingli, a low-ranking laundry maid, clutched her jade pendant and stared at the red marks on her neck in the bronze mirror. The man who had taken her to his bed last night was none other than the emperor himself.
She entered this bloody game and played every move with care, yet she could never see through the emperor’s heart. The black iron chains Xiao Jingyan had laid out over twenty years tightened around her ankle, and beneath his imperial robes lay half of the Heavenly Secret Jade she had lost as a child.
When someone who can foresee the future falls in love with the source of that foresight, will she become the regicide who overturns the board, or the mastermind trapped on the imperial bed?
