Fighting for Survival in the Inner Palace: I Became the Ancestor with My Brains

[From the Start: Hell Mode] Shen Qingtang, a lowly laundry maid whose very name speaks of her humble status. Her fingers are cracked and festering with chilblains, her back ground into the dirt. Day after day, she works herself to the bone between washboards and filthy water, all for a mouthful of sour rice and half a broken roof tile. In the man-eating golden cage of the imperial harem, she is the tiniest speck of dust at the bottom.

[Her Golden Finger Is Her Brain!] She has neither peerless beauty nor a prestigious family, and no miraculous good fortune will fall from the sky. Her only assets are a mind born with perfect recall and the cold, calculating schemes forged in despair!

[The Queen of Overwork Rises! She Tears Apart the White Moonlight!] From scapegoat to the player moving the pieces, every step Shen Qingtang takes is soaked in blood, tears, and scheming!

She rips away the “sweet innocent” mask of her hypocritical mistress and makes her suffer the consequences!

She finds the greedy eunuch in charge’s weak spot and turns him into a blade in her hand!

Caught in Consort Xie Mingshu’s shocking murder plot, she uses herself as bait and fights to survive against the odds!

When the pure-hearted imperial physician Xu Huaian becomes her weakness, she gives him up with her own hands, and the pain cuts to the bone! Romance? It is the most extravagant poison in this forbidden palace!

[Her Goal: Don’t Be the Emperor’s Favorite, Be the Ancestor!] She does not want the emperor’s favor; it is no more than a fleeting illusion! What she wants is to become the true “living ancestor” of this imperial palace! She will make those who once trampled her grovel beneath the rules she sets! Even Xie Mingshu, who holds the imperial phoenix seal, will have to bow down and pledge allegiance to her!

The imperial palace is a battlefield, and the grind never ends! With her mind as a blade and her schemes as armor, Shen Qingtang launches a solitary counterattack from the dust all the way to the summit! Watch as a lowly palace maid carves a blood-soaked road to the heavens through a palace where human hearts are more terrifying than demons, and rises to an unrivaled peak!