A Lifetime of Qing Serenity

When she was four, the orphan Hutuling'a met the Fourth Prince Yinzhen in the study.

She saw the urgency in his calligraphy, and he glimpsed a galaxy in her eyes.

From then on, along the long road through the deep palace, they kept each other company, warming each other’s hands in winter and reading together in summer.

From heart-to-heart talks beneath the moon to protecting one another through crises, their bond grew until they became each other’s first and final obsession.

He was the charcoal that warmed her on cold nights; she was the poem that took him beyond the rules.

Growing up alongside her was a lively group of five, always bickering but never breaking apart:

Qiqige, a Mongolian princess; the honest and straightforward Tenth Prince Yin'e; the shrewd Ninth Prince Yintang; and the beloved Thirteenth Prince Yinxiang.

Amid the endless schemes of the Forbidden City, they became its warmest sight.

Then, on the eve of the imperial selection, a shadow from a past life quietly descended.

Wulanara Ruyu, carrying memories and resentment from her previous life, swore to reclaim the Yinzhen and empress’s throne she believed had always been hers.

She joined forces with Consort De and incited the Crown Prince, repeatedly directing her poisonous schemes at the two of them.

Ling'er had no choice but to fight back with all her might alongside the five, outmaneuvering her enemies from the inner household to the imperial court.

But the real storm came in the form of an imperial edict:

Kangxi intended to betroth a daughter of the Nian family to Yinzhen as his secondary consort.

Ruyu smiled, Yinzhen tightened his grip on Ling'er’s hand, and history’s chilling echo rang out:

The Nian consort entered the household, and Yongzheng favored her above all others.

In that moment, she understood that she was fighting not just one person, but the destiny accepted by an entire era.

When a transmigrator meets a reborn woman, can childhood-sweetheart love rewrite the final chapter of the Nine Dragons’ struggle for the throne?