As soon as Shen Weiwan opened her eyes, she traveled through time to become the abandoned queen in Gong Douwen who was destined to live in seclusion in the cold palace for twenty-seven years and eventually died of illness. The annals of history have already written her end. The palace is cold and silent, the emperor's heart is cold, and everyone is waiting to see her rot in despair. But she refused to sit still and wait for death. Her eyes fell on the dusty classics in the cold palace, and she gave birth to a hope in the desperate situation - copying books.
In the twenty-seventh year, spring is accompanied by lingering plum blossoms, summer is filled with night rain, autumn leaves are swept away, and winter is surrounded by a cold furnace. She brushed off the dust, repaired the remaining scrolls, and copied down all the books in the cold palace, stroke by stroke, from collections of classics and history to miscellaneous medical books, from poems and songs to rare rare volumes. The dilapidated cold palace in the past became her place of salvation due to the fragrance of ink, which also allowed her to lose her resentment in her words and settle down to calmness and indifference.
The new emperor ascended the throne and granted amnesty to the world. On the day she stepped out of the cold palace, seventeen bullock carts were loaded with thousands of volumes of handwritten classics. The momentum alarmed the government and the public. The historian wrote: "A certain family of the deposed queen brought thousands of volumes of books with her when she left the palace, but she disappeared."
She quietly returned to her hometown in the south of the Yangtze River and opened a Wanqing book school, specializing in girls from poor families, teaching them to read and understand their minds, see the world, and themselves. Someone asked her, after twenty-seven years in the palace, didn't she hate it? She stroked the yellowed pages and whispered, "Those books were the ones that accompanied me during those twenty-seven years, not the palace."
Copying books saved her and made her successful. The palace wall cannot lock a heart nourished by words. She has never won a palace battle, but she has used pen and ink as a blade to break away from her destined fate. While teaching and educating people and passing on classics, she secretly investigates the old cases of the Shen family. In the ordinary fireworks, she lives her own life.
