(A hit historical romance with an adorable, pampered heroine, secret identities, court intrigue, and cute kids. Thrilling and heartwarming!)
Synopsis:
Chu Yun Zhao is reborn as an abandoned infant in the Cold Palace. At three and a half, she's so scrawny she looks like a kitten, surviving on food stolen by mice.
Then she unexpectedly saves her badly wounded eldest brother, the Crown Prince.
Crows deliver messages for her, ants steal medicine for her, and even the koi in the imperial garden leap right into her battered little pot!
“Could this girl be the legendary reincarnation of a lucky koi?”
The emperor personally conducts a blood test to confirm her parentage, but something strange happens: her blood is compatible with all five princes!
From then on, the pitiful little girl from the Cold Palace becomes the darling of the entire empire.
Her eldest brother, the God of War, slaughters his enemies for her: “Anyone who hurts Zhaozhao will have their entire clan executed!”
Her second brother, the divine physician, nearly poisons himself testing medicine: “Even if it's deadly, I'll eat any candy my sister has licked!”
Her third brother, the richest man in the realm, tosses out gold by the handful: “Here, be good. You can use this enemy kingdom's merchant caravan as a toy to smash things with.”
Her fourth brother, the top scholar, copies her books every night: “I'll copy the Buddhist scriptures, and I'll take the blame.”
Her fifth brother, a sweet, silly boy, sneaks food from the imperial kitchen every day: “Is Zhaozhao hungry? Your brother stole you a roast goose!”
But later...
Chu Yun Zhao discovers that she's not a real princess at all, but the orphaned survivor of a fallen kingdom.
Even more terrifying:
Her eldest brother's sword once pierced her birth mother's heart.
Her third brother's secret letter says, “Wait for a chance to kill her.”
And her fifth brother, who always acts like a fool, leaves a poisoned dagger by her bed in the dead of night...
“Brothers, does all this pampering still count?”
It's so confusing. Is the emperor an empty shell? His concubine doesn't even know what she is.