[Strong Female Lead + Court Intrigue]
Xiu Wanrou died once, with her hands and feet cut off, her eyes gouged out, and her tongue torn out before she was stuffed into a jar.
She was the Great Jing emperor’s most beloved concubine. She had climbed from a palace maid in the Palace Service Bureau to one of the Nine Concubines. She once thought she could defy fate and persuade the emperor to build up his own forces and escape the Xie family’s control. But she never imagined that the Xie family would be even more ruthless than she had expected. The empress’s father, Chancellor Xie Zekun, launched a palace coup, deposed the emperor, and installed a child emperor, leaving the court drenched in blood.
And she became one of the most tragic sacrifices in that bloody purge, all because the empress resented the emperor’s favor toward her.
When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to the tenth year of Tongxing.
She was fifteen that year, newly arrived at the palace, still the lowliest of slaves, punished with assignment to the Palace Service Bureau because her father had been convicted of a crime.
This time, she would not compete for favor or fight for power. She would live long enough to escape this palace that devoured people…
