On the first day Jiang Li became the tyrant’s personal palace maid, she got in by using her special trick of smearing charcoal ash all over her face.
The reason was absurd: the tyrant found her ugliness reassuring.
Even more absurdly, she suddenly became able to hear the tyrant’s thoughts...
Lady Sun tried to crawl into his bed: [She looks like a fire poker from the imperial kitchen. She thinks she’s worthy of attending to me?]
The Empress Dowager had just selected three new consorts: [The moment they open their mouths, it’s “Long live the Emperor, long live, long live!” Am I a tortoise? Am I supposed to live ten thousand years?!]
Jiang Li made a startling discovery: this cruel, absurd tyrant was actually a virgin who couldn’t stand women touching him...
Every woman who tried to climb into his bed had her head chopped off!
Jiang Li only wanted to stay alive and keep her distance from the tyrant. She never expected...
When the Empress Dowager angrily denounced her for “defiling the imperial body,” the tyrant personally draped a dragon-patterned cloak over her shoulders.
When she had an accident and fell off a cliff, the tyrant leaped after her without hesitation. Later, burning with fever, he bit her earlobe and murmured, “If we survive, I’ll show you the real stars.”
Later, in the Golden Throne Hall, she stood in a phoenix crown and bridal robes, her face free of cosmetics.
Qi Chengyu held a footbath and swore, “This is my empire, and it’s your foot-washing kingdom too.”
