The Daoist said, “The legitimate daughter is destined to be empress; the concubine-born daughter is destined for a lowly life.”
In her previous life, Concubine Xue was audacious enough to switch her with her legitimate elder sister. To prevent any future trouble, they poisoned her into silence when she was only a year old.
While her elder sister took her place in the imperial palace and basked in glory, she was branded as lowborn and died after enduring endless abuse.
Reborn, she finds that her elder sister is once again asking her to become the Crown Prince's concubine.
Looking at her elder sister's false, kindly face, she knows that she has returned too.
If that's the case, why should she follow the same path again?
At the Qiudi hunting grounds, beneath a moonless sky.
Her elder sister wants to become empress? She turns around and knocks on Emperor Qi Yin'an's door. She plans to become her sister's stepmother.
Her elder sister urges the Crown Prince to stage a coup. She enters the palace with child and keeps the emperor company.
Her elder sister falls to her knees and demands, hysterical, to know why she stole her destiny.
She smiles. “Destined to be empress? Just wait and see who has the final say over this realm.”
Yu Nian never understood, even until the day she died: If they were both reborn, why was she the one with the easy-win script?
