Without power or influence, an ordinary heart can still reshape the land.
Shen Zhuyan, a modern screenwriter whose work never took off, transmigrates into the political intrigue novel she wrote, becoming a doomed consort who is sentenced to death in the very first chapter.
With no System and no cheat abilities, her one golden finger is knowing the entire plot in advance.
In the original script, she poisons the hostage prince, Xiao Zhi, tonight, and her whole family is executed tomorrow.
This time, she pours the poisoned wine into her sleeve and smiles gently. “Your Highness, it's time for your medicine.”
From discarded consort in the Cold Palace to ruler of the realm, she relies on an ordinary person's wisdom to:
· Save the future tyrant with a blood-written letter on a snowy night;
· Outargue the scholars at court and topple the century-old foundations of the great clans;
· Fight shoulder to shoulder at the frontier and protect a hundred thousand miles of territory.
The world calls her a “demon consort who brings ruin to the nation,” but the court historian writes:
“Empress Zhuyan, a woman who established imperial examinations for women, pacified the Northern Tribes, and saved the people. A singular figure throughout the ages.”
The tyrant, rumored to be sinister and ruthless, did only two tender things in his life:
He took a sword meant for her, and he made her his empress.
They shared a bed in life and a grave in death.
The age of peace and prosperity owed its transformation to her.
