My name is Aying, and I am the shadow of the most noble princess of the Zhou Dynasty... She and I were born on the same day, same year, same month, and look exactly the same except for the location of a tear mole. She enjoys the favor of thousands of people. She is the future queen and the brightest pearl of the Great Zhou Dynasty. I was blind to the light and had no food to eat. I was her most loyal soldier, testing poison for her, blocking knives for her, and learning all the cunning tricks for her that she didn't bother to learn. I once thought that this was my destiny. Until that year, Feng Yin disappeared, the East Palace was abandoned, and the government was in turmoil. In order to keep her position as the crown princess, my good sister personally brought me a bowl of poisonous wine and said to me gently: "Ah Ying, my father wants to thoroughly investigate the Feng Yin case, and all the insiders will die. You die for me, just like you used to defend me from the knife, okay?" At that moment, I looked at the coldness and fierceness in her eyes, and suddenly laughed. Why? Why were you born noble and I was born humble? Why is your life important and my life is nothing? I have been your shadow for eighteen years, and now it is your turn to step into the shadow. So, I overturned the poisoned wine, killed the envoy, and with scars all over my body, I used the "shadow embroidery" method she taught me to embroider a secret letter that could be fake and authentic, and ended her husband, the aloof prince, with my own hands. ## They all thought that the princess was hurt by love and grew up overnight. No one knows that under the shadow of the lamp, the real princess has long been reduced to a prisoner. And I, the substitute from the gutter, am stepping on countless bones, walking step by step towards the supreme power. Only,
