On the day she drew her last breath in the Cold Palace, Shen Yao never imagined she would be reborn at the imperial selection ceremony!
In her previous life, she was framed for having an affair with a guard. Her family was destroyed, and she died with hatred in her heart.
In this life, she starts as a lowly palace maid, swearing to make her enemies pay in blood!
Drawing on her memories of her previous life, she plans every step carefully and comes up with one clever scheme after another.
The hypocritical empress?
Deposed!
She toys with the suspicious emperor as if he were in the palm of her hand, turning his distant indifference into devoted affection.
She also gives birth to two sets of twins, a boy and a girl each time. With the emperor's favor and her children both in her grasp, she secures her place as the most powerful woman in the harem.
She has made her way through mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and all her enemies have become dust beneath her feet.
At last, clad in phoenix robes, she ascends the throne as Empress Dowager and becomes the greatest winner in the imperial palace!
