During the Yongning period of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the late emperor passed away, the young emperor ascended the throne, and the queen mother lowered the curtain. Sixteen-year-old Shen Zhiwei entered the palace as the daughter of a guilty minister, starting from the lowest rank as a maid. She witnessed the overt and covert fights between the queen and the concubine, and experienced the heartbreaking pain of the sisters' antagonism. In life-and-death crises, she learned to use gentleness as a knife and forbearance as a shield.
This is not a simple revenge story. When Shen Zhiwei finally reached the pinnacle of power, she discovered that the real enemy was never any of the women in the harem, but the emperor's heart that regarded them all as pawns. Caught between imperial power, love, dignity and survival, she must make the most difficult choice - to become the next chess player, or to break this cannibalistic chess game?
"There are never winners in this deep palace. There are only living people and dead ghosts."
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