She uses palace attire as a battle robe, conspiracy as a ladder, and turns the entire harem into a chess game.
The emperor on the dragon throne is her carefully calculated enemy and the city she must conquer.
It wasn't until she was crowned with the phoenix crown and had all the power in the world that he suddenly realized that in earlier years, he had been sitting quietly on the other side of the chess game, watching with a smile as she "manipulated" his empire and sincerity.
In this scene, who is the disaster?