I Opened a Path to the Underworld in the Imperial Harem

In her previous life, the heroine was an apprentice corpse driver who died unjustly. She made a pact with the Underworld, gaining the ability to understand the realm of the dead and judge wandering spirits. She is reborn as a low-ranking palace consort who has just been murdered in the depths of the imperial palace. This magnificent palace is a battlefield for power, and a prison for countless wronged souls. By day, Shen Qingwu is a cautious consort, treading carefully at every turn. By night, she becomes a guide through the netherworld, traversing the boundary between yin and yang. Using her ability to listen to and judge the palace's wandering spirits, she solves one unsolved case after another, exposes one conspiracy after another, and sends each of her bloodstained enemies to their doom. She seeks neither imperial favor nor romance, only revenge and repayment of her pact. Yet, without meaning to, her unique talent for solving cases catches the attention of the scheming, suspicious emperor. When the palace's treachery meets the Underworld's ironclad laws, a grand power struggle that overturns the boundary between life and death begins.