The Empress Is Pressured to Have an Heir, and the Entire Court Begs to Be Her Consort

At the height of power in the Great Zhou Dynasty, Empress Shen Qinghe is an iron-fisted tyrant before whom the entire court bows. Yet no one knows that before she became ruler, she was the most insignificant of the nine princesses in the imperial capital. Her birth mother was lowborn, and she was timid by nature, a speck of dust the princes and princesses could trample at will. To survive the bloody maelstrom of the succession struggle, she conceals every trace of her brilliance and takes on the most harmless guise, silently watching the game unfold.