In the fourteenth year of Yong'an, on the night when the begonia flowers fell, fifteen-year-old Gu Qining lost everything. Her father was a Tutor of the Three Dynasties, and her mother, Lin Wanyi, came from a scholarly family. She should have grown up carefree among the fragrance of flowers in the courtyard. However, overnight, his father's close friend Zhao Xiaozhao massacred the entire Gu family in the name of "rebellion", and the wealthy family was reduced to scorched earth. Her mother pushed her into the tunnel with tears in her eyes, leaving only one sentence - "Stay alive".
She took off her brocade clothes and buried her name. From then on, there was only the orphan "Shen Heng" who was living under someone else's roof. She learned to observe people in the market, calculate carefully in the account books, and hide her sharpness in the meekness of her low eyebrows. But those eyes that had seen fire and blood never really lowered.
Entering the palace as a maid was the first chess piece she made. Within the high walls of the palace, she met Song Yanchu, the late empress's legitimate son, who was also dormant, and she also gained the heart of her confidant Su Tan, who depended on her for life and death. He understood the unspoken hatred in her eyes, and she knew the loneliness behind his smile. Two hearts riddled with holes slowly come closer together on the blade of intrigue, from fighting side by side to being connected by heart.
She exposed Concubine Li's vicious plan at the palace banquet, and revealed the truth about the family's destruction with irrefutable evidence in the court. Every step she takes is on the edge of a knife, but she is never swallowed up by hatred, and she never loses the righteousness and compassion her father taught her.
When the injustice was redressed and the traitor was punished, she used the dignity of a queen to establish a women's school, set up a charity hall, and set up Huimin Pharmacy, and turned the rain she had been exposed to into an umbrella held by women all over the world. In her later years, she put her whole life into writing, and the title of the book is "The Embroidery of Zhumen" - the rich family is deep, the world is like embroidery, only the unyielding of every stitch can embroider the beautiful rivers and mountains.
Really well written and beautiful