In the late spring of the twelfth year of Yongzheng's reign, An Lingrong woke up from the poisonous dream of bitter almonds on the bed of Sui Yuxuan - she was reborn before the tragedy: Zhen Huan had just returned to the palace from Lingyun Peak, the queen's entanglement had not yet been unsheathed, and her hands that had been stained with blood had not yet been touched by harmful embroidery thread and incense.
In her previous life, she was the humblest chess piece on the harem chessboard: she was from a humble family and was looked down upon. She mistakenly believed in the queen and was reduced to a knife. In the end, she was poisoned and left the palace, and everyone betrayed her relatives. In this life, she hid the shock and hatred in her eyes, wrapped her sharpness with plain embroidery, and concealed her intrigues with light fragrance—rejecting Zhen Huan's goodwill to avoid entanglements, accepting the queen's "reward" without taking it personally, and only being submissive and content with the emperor's favor. She wants to use the embroidery needle as a blade and the incense as a shield to earn a way out of being a pawn in this Shura field surrounded by red walls, so that those who have run over her will finally see her thorns like cold plums.
