A Dream in a Book: Consort Gao Turns Her Cold Palace Life into a Tragic Rise to Power

[Focused on the previous generation’s tangled love and grudges] [Poor little Nan Heng is so heartbreaking] [The ultimate CP fan, no breaking up the couples] [Bullet comments + medicine + political intrigue + raising children and turning the tables + a subtle, unforgiving “win back your wife” ordeal] Medical student Gao Rong stayed up all night crying over Nan Heng, the beautiful but tragic character from A Dream in a Book. When she opened her eyes, she had become his biological mother: Gao Changrong, the noble consort and younger sister of the powerful chancellor! Hell mode from the start: pregnant with her second child and nearly miscarrying! The bullet comments issued frantic warnings: at the royal hunting grounds, the Empress will die, and Nan Heng is in danger! Using modern medicine, she pulled them back from the brink and saved the pregnancy! She rushed her palanquin straight to the hunting grounds, determined to change Nan Heng’s fate! A butterfly flaps its wings, and fate shifts ever so slightly. Empress Chu shielded Nan Heng from a hidden arrow. She didn’t die on the spot, but could not escape the fateful scene: in the end, she breathed her last in Gao Changrong’s arms. “Who… killed the Empress?” Suspicion shrouded everything, and the truth remained elusive. The Emperor thundered, “Gao Changrong, you are guilty of regicide. The Seventh Prince, Nan Heng, will be punished alongside you. Send mother and son to the Cold Palace!” The fateful-scene mechanism was confirmed: what is meant to happen will happen. But this time, Gao Changrong would never let nine-year-old Nan Heng fend for himself in the Cold Palace. The Cold Palace was a cruel place. She had to protect Nan Heng and her unborn child, and fight to survive against all odds! The bullet comments’ foreknowledge and modern medicine were the sharpest weapons in her hands! A drought struck the Great Jing, and the dynasty’s fate hung in the balance. She gave birth to a daughter in the Cold Palace. Seven-colored auspicious clouds appeared, and sweet rain fell from the heavens, ending the drought. The Guardian Princess, Nan Lin, was born. Imperial Noble Consort Gao Changrong, with her children Nan Heng and Nan Lin, smashed her way out of the Cold Palace and made a triumphant return! A tangled web of political intrigue, love, and hatred: The dog emperor’s gaze grew increasingly dark and inscrutable. The man who had been forgotten, the former war god now disfigured and paralyzed, her former fiancé, Prince Pingyang Nan Huai, quietly broke his silence…