My name is Su Yunxi, and I am a farm girl from a water town in the south of the Yangtze River. I farm under the sun every day and listen to my neighbors gossiping. My life is dull and frustrating - until that day, someone from the palace said that I looked like the deceased "Shen Guiren" and wanted to take me into the palace as a substitute.
Before entering the palace, I thought I was just changing places to work, but I didn't expect that this harem was a place for cannibalism. The empress was jealous of the "special treatment" I received from the emperor, and tried to stymie me at every turn; the concubine, relying on her family's power, wanted to use me as a pawn; even the maids and eunuchs around me saw that I was of low origin, and bullied me overtly and covertly.
