Modern corporate drone Feng Qing woke up one day as Shugen, the most powerful high priest in the Shang royal court. With divine authority above all, she spoke on Heaven's behalf, and thought she could coast to victory! Who knew the palace was full of ruthless people? The sickly, obsessive Daji hid poison-tipped golden hairpins in her fox-fur cloak; Queen Jiang's jade tablet coiled around a little snake with a flickering tongue; even Ziyi, the firstborn son of a concubine who always wore a gentle smile, offered her a tortoise shell to finish her off when she messed up a ritual dance! Immune to embarrassment and determined to slack off, the queen refused to back down. When a prophecy went wrong, she said, "Heaven's will wants me to try a different reading." When a concubine talked back during a reprimand, she praised her, "Little sister, you're absolutely right." As she blundered along, she somehow came up with a new order for divine, royal, and queenly authority. Oh, and why was that scheming prince who kept handing her weapons also placing his heart in her hands?
High Priest of the Shang royal court? Living immortal who speaks for Heaven? Feng Qing felt the golden crown with fangs on her head and wanted to scratch the wall. She was just a middle-aged woman whose modern life had gone completely off the rails! She turned a ritual dance into a harvest dance, and the Shang people applauded. She missed the auspicious hour by three quarters of an hour and insisted, "Heaven's will is testing our patience." She tried to lecture Daji, only to hear, "Your makeup's smudged today, Priestess." She wiped her face without a care. "This priestess calls that being down to earth!" Who could have guessed that her daily blunders would accidentally loosen the thousand-year-old deadlock between divine, royal, and queenly authority? And even more incredible, Ziyi, the firstborn son of a concubine who always 'thoughtfully' handed her a weapon whenever she embarrassed herself, was as dark-hearted as he was outwardly gentle, yet completely taken in by her philosophy of slacking off...
The characters are rich and the plot is exciting with its ups and downs.