Lin Wei, a graduate student in the Department of Modern History, opened his eyes and traveled through time to become Lin Cairen, the lowest level member of the Dayin Dynasty. He was trapped in a palace with a red wall and became an "ant" who could be bullied.
When she first entered the palace, she was deprived of her status by a noble concubine, and she met a trap set by a concubine Shu. With modern knowledge and familiarity with the logic of palace battles, she gained a foothold step by step from "boiling water to prevent epidemics" to "adapting poems to impress the emperor"; she met the cold medical woman Shen Qingwu. , Exchanged folk remedies for connections, and figured out the factional structure of the harem; facing the arrogant Concubine Su and the hypocritical Concubine Liu Shu, she used her strength to either let the tribute be lost and make the queen dissatisfied, or to expose the winning tactics to make her opponent lose power, and she was promoted from a talented person to Jieyu and concubine.
She once had little expectations for the gentle emperor Xiao Jinyuan, but after witnessing him dealing with concubines and using love as a bargaining chip for power, she completely gave up her obsession. After that, she focused on the chess game of power, improved the loom and was appreciated by the Queen Mother, exposed the corruption of the Su family and brought down the imperial concubine, and used her connections to defeat the poisoning conspiracy. Finally, after the Queen died of illness, she ascended to the throne with the absolute advantage of "having no family background and being able to stabilize the Sixth Palace".
With the phoenix seal in hand, Lin Wei stood on the palace wall, watching the emperor and his new concubine chatting and laughing, with calm eyes. What she won was never the emperor's love, but the power to control her own destiny, and the stability of the rest of her life in the palace.
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The subject matter is novel, the plot is tight, thought-provoking, and beautiful to watch.
The subject matter is novel, the plot is tight, thought-provoking, and beautiful to watch.