The Empress Conquers the Harem with Psychological Warfare

In the third year of the Da Qi era, the scholarly Shen family is framed for treason and exiled in its entirety. The only exception is the legitimate daughter, {Shen Qingci}, who enters the palace as the daughter of a condemned official. Given the lowest rank of Answer, she is thrown into the remote Broken Jade Pavilion and becomes someone everyone in the harem can bully. Faced with the provocations of the military-born Noble Consort {Liu Yuru}, the virtuous Consort {Su Wanyi}’s hypocritical schemes, and servants who skimp on her provisions and treat her with contempt, {Shen Qingci} does not complain about fate. Born into a scholarly family, she excels at reading people. The haughty Noble Consort? She acts weak to draw the emperor’s attention to her arrogance. The hypocritical Virtuous Consort? She seizes on her weakness, her desire to earn a reputation for recruiting worthy people, and makes her suffer the consequences. Even the suspicious emperor, {Xiao Jingyuan}, is someone she can read precisely: she understands his desire to keep the harem balanced and wins his trust one step at a time.