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On the night she entered the palace as a substitute bride, the emperor stared at her face and called her by someone else’s name.
Shen Zhixu came to her senses at once: a replacement? Fine, she’d play the part.
When a low-ranking consort gave her trouble, she snapped right back. When a senior palace maid shorted her allowance, she reported her straight to the Empress Dowager. When someone tried to frame her with poison, she turned the tables and sent her enemy to the Cold Palace.
She never swallowed her anger. She got even on the spot and fought back whenever challenged.
The emperor treated her like a shadow, so she made sure he understood: Shen Zhixu was nobody else.
Later, the emperor stopped giving her the late empress’s belongings and began painting plum blossoms for her with his own hands. Later, only she and three close companions remained in the imperial harem, with no more scheming or betrayal. Later, the emperor knelt in the snow and begged her to forgive him. She said, “Prove it to me.”
From a concubine-born substitute bride to the woman who ruled the inner palace, she spent ten years becoming the only light within the palace walls.
No swallowing her grievances, no catfights between women, and face-slapping all the way to the final chapter.
A happy ending, so dive right in without worry.
Concubine Yun gave birth to two princes.