Shen Zhiyi, the daughter of a merchant, enters the palace as a consort, only to be swept into the bloody storms of court intrigue. Consort Shu’s poisonous schemes, conspiracies from the former court, and the emperor’s tests come one after another. When she discovers the truth behind Empress Duanjing’s death twenty years ago, when her family is framed and imprisoned, and when the imperial physician who treated her with sincere kindness is put in danger, she must learn to wield strategy as a blade and carve out a path to survival amid the whirlpool of power, love, and hatred.
