Su Jinyan, the legitimate daughter of the Prime Minister’s household, returns reborn, only to catch her half-sister Su Miaoling pulling the same old trick: feigning injury to escape the selection, hoping to push her into the hell of the imperial palace once more!
In her previous life, she entered the palace in her sister’s place, fell victim to a scheme, and died unjustly. Her half-sister married Pei Zhao, a gifted scholar from a poor family, but the Pei family’s hidden feud ended with her being sentenced to death. Reborn, Su Jinyan turns the tables and volunteers to take her sister’s place in the selection. She’ll make her half-sister taste life in the Pei family’s “den of wolves and tigers,” and stir up a storm in the harem!
Once in the palace, she uses the emperor’s favor to establish herself, exposes her half-sister’s past misdeeds, and turns her into a laughingstock in the capital. At the same time, she follows the clues to uncover the long-standing feud between the Pei family and the imperial concubine dowager, and watches as the dowager’s schemes backfire. By the time her half-sister is cast out by the Pei family and reduced to wandering the streets, and the dowager is punished after her malicious plot is exposed, Su Jinyan has risen all the way to the empress’s throne.
From a legitimate daughter at everyone’s mercy to the mistress of the harem who controls her own fate, she wields rebirth as a blade, cuts through the false bonds of sisterhood, shatters the shackles of fate, and writes her own comeback story.
