The day I entered the palace, I learned that I was an actor in a play.
Copper mirrors spied on us, and fragrant drugs controlled us. Emperor He Xuan used listening chambers to monitor the six palaces and the "Gentle Powder" to tame his consorts. Even Gu Chenbi, the most honored empress and the woman at his side, was no more than a marionette chosen for the "Oriole Project."
As the ultimate discarded pawn, codenamed "Oriole Twelve," the red butterfly birthmark on the back of my neck was both a death warrant and the key to breaking the game!
**They perished within the palace walls so I could sail toward distant horizons, **
• **The empress taught me to hide a key in a poisoned pastry; a bloodstained handkerchief revealed a shocking secret drug;**
• **The Noble Consort used a solar eclipse to help me intercept the poison powder, then died on the altar with a blood-written message: "Twelve cycles will break it";**
• **The Imperial Noble Consort entrusted me with the military tally of three thousand death warriors, then drank poisoned wine with a smile and sighed, "See you beyond the cage";**
• **My maid Su Chan faked her death and left the palace, lighting the lamp of "Sparrows Scattering Beyond the Vermilion Wall" for me...**
With blood and tears, I wove a net and settled accounts with each enemy in turn:
• Rule from behind the curtain? Yes! I placed the child emperor on the throne and ruled the realm for three years, all to lure the snake from its hole.
• Consorts murdering the emperor? Of course! We switched the poison pill with a fake-death drug, and a hundred beauties joined forces to send the tyrant to his grave!
• Burn the records? Not enough! I want the empress dowager's ashes buried with the old dynasty!
It's pretty cool, although I didn't understand it