Palace Schemes at Shu He Palace

Bai Shuhe is a neglected daughter born to a low-ranking concubine who has fallen out of favor.

On the surface, she is meek and keeps her abilities hidden. In truth, she is a master schemer.

After her mother’s death, she carefully lays her plans and enters the palace selection, becoming a consort.

She advances step by step, using her beauty as a door-opener, her talents as a stepping stone, and her acting skills as protection. In the treacherous inner palace, she rises to become empress, helps her son ascend the throne, and becomes the empress dowager who has the last laugh.

The ambitious and gifted emperor never realizes, until the day he dies, that the love he believed he possessed was the most sincere in the world...

(A fictional era. The heroine is clear-headed throughout and only pretending. Please note that the men are not chaste. If that’s not to your taste, don’t read. Please don’t flame the author, and if you’re making malicious reports, may the misfortune fall on me instead.)