She is Shen Qingyue, the eldest granddaughter of the founding father, and she stayed alone in the empty room on her wedding night.
Liu Hanyan, the daughter-in-law of a minor official, won all the favors with her delicate face, while Qingdai, the maidservant who accompanied her, suffered day and night on the knife's edge of betrayal and loyalty. Everyone said that the queen was unloved and had no children, and would be deposed into the cold palace sooner or later. Shen Qingyue believed it herself - until she discovered that the emperor's "exclusion" of heirs was artificial, the battle in the harem was a chess game, and her Shen family's military power was the only killing move in the chess game that no one dared to use.
But she never expected that the worst price in this game of chess would be Qingdai.
The maid blocked the fatal blow for her and left seven words before she died: "Tell my lady, I did not kneel this time."
Three thousand border troops entered the imperial city at night. The young marshal of the Shen family, her childhood sweetheart, drew his sword for her, and the puppet emperor abdicated for her. When Shen Qingyue walked out of the cold palace, people kneeling in the palace thought they were about to welcome an iron-blooded empress - but her first order after ascending the throne was to confer a maidservant.
She won the world.
But from then on, apart from Shen Zhao standing side by side, there were only three vague words on the blood handkerchief on the desk: Queen Mother's Medicine.
Qing Dai never knelt down again.
And she never cried again.
