The Deposed Empress Has Packed Up, Your Majesty, Please Sign for Her

Shen Huazhi, the eldest legitimate daughter of the Duke of Zhenguo's household, married into the Eastern Palace full of hope. Yet on her wedding night, she was left alone, watching as Crown Prince Zhao Heng returned, bringing his loathing for her and his deep devotion to his favored maid, Mingyue. Faced with humiliation and betrayal, she decisively proposed a three-year pact: in exchange for using the Shen family's influence to help Zhao Heng secure his position as heir and ascend the throne, she would gain her freedom after three years. Behind this blood-sworn agreement lay the shattered feelings of a young girl, and the lonely, daring struggle of a woman in the scheming depths of the imperial palace to break free from the chains of fate and seek her true self.