The day blood stained the gates of the Imperial Medical Bureau, sixteen-year-old Shen Qingluan watched her father be falsely accused of treason, bringing ruin upon the entire family. Once the apple of her parents’ eye, she became a palace servant. She hid her silver needles and pressed the good-luck charm her childhood sweetheart had given her against her chest. It was the only warmth she had in this man-eating palace.
The palace was a swamp teeming with schemes. When Consort Xian’s miscarriage was blamed on her and the Empress Dowager’s Blackbird Bureau kept her under close watch, she stumbled upon a clue: the missing angelica from her father’s desk and the swapped pregnancy medicine both pointed to a carefully orchestrated court drama.
She plotted every move in her quest for revenge: posing as a mad maid, she went into hiding and wielded medicine as a blade, navigating the medicinal scents of the Imperial Medical Bureau and the rouge-scented harem. Crown Prince Xiao Jingyan’s unfathomable depths, the sudden return of her childhood sweetheart Lin Mobai, and the undisguised murderous intent in Noble Consort Su’s eyes all dragged her into an even more dangerous whirlpool.
When the secret formula known as “Changing Beauty” came to light and the truth about the twins was revealed, she realized she had long been the most crucial piece on the chessboard.
The iron-fisted empress dowager, the scheming crown prince, the devoted childhood sweetheart... Who was sincere, and who was using her?
Shen Qingluan clenched the silver needles hidden in her sleeve, the blood-red palace walls reflected in her eyes. “I, a daughter of the Shen family, may be mired in the mud, but I will still dance like a phoenix to the highest heavens!”
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