Jiang Yixin, the Jiang family’s legitimate daughter, is breathtakingly beautiful. The moment she enters the palace as a consort, she effortlessly captures the emperor’s attention. Showered with exclusive favor and summoned to his bed night after night, she believes this must be true love. But with three thousand beauties in the imperial harem, how can she keep the emperor’s favor all to herself? Open attacks are easy to dodge, but hidden arrows are hard to guard against. As schemes and plots surge toward her like a tide, she finally realizes that in the deep palace, an emperor’s favor is both a ladder to the heavens and a death sentence. From innocence to clear-eyed resolve, from pawn to player, watch as she navigates the towering red walls one careful step at a time, rising from a much-criticized favorite to the pinnacle of power, where no one dares challenge her…
