Jade Shattered Behind Vermilion Walls: A Concubine-Born Daughter's Bid for the Throne

Su Jinyi, a concubine-born daughter of the Su family, enters the palace in place of her legitimate elder sister as a ninth-rank Lady of Fine Apparel. She has neither a powerful family to support her nor a golden finger. When her elder sister poisons her, a consort frames her, and the Empress Dowager suppresses her, she calmly and cleverly finds a way to overcome each crisis. She never competes for favor, yet Emperor Xiao Yi gives her his undivided love: when she is slandered, he investigates through the night to clear her name; when she is in danger, he risks his life to protect her; and when she misses her family, he makes an exception and lets her go home for a visit. From a Lady of Fine Apparel on the brink of the Cold Palace to an empress holding the imperial seal, she wins her future with her wits and earns the emperor’s devotion with her sincerity, telling a sweeping palace romance full of thrills without a golden finger.