The daughter of a criminal who had her whole family executed changed her name and surname and entered the palace as a maid, just to kill her enemies with her own hands. But she didn't expect that the woman she hated so much was the only one protecting her in the palace.
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In the seventeenth year of the Apocalypse, on the fourteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, there was heavy snow.
Shen Tingzhong, a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, was falsely accused of "liaison with foreign enemies" and his entire family was executed. Sixteen-year-old Shen Zhaoning hid in a secret compartment and witnessed her mother being killed and her younger brother taken away. Before her father was taken away, he silently said to her: "Don't look back."
She climbed out of the pool of blood, holding the secret letter left by her father in her arms. There were only three words in the letter: Concubine Xiao.
Three months later, she changed her name to "Shen Anning" and entered the palace as an orphan as a maid.
She wanted to find this woman. She wanted her to pay with blood.
But she didn't expect——
In the clothing bureau, it was the imperial concubine's gold-woven underskirt that made her rise out of the quagmire; in the imperial garden, it was the imperial concubine who remembered her name; at the Mid-Autumn Night Banquet, it was the imperial concubine who brought her to her side in public and said, "I want this girl."
She worked step by step, tried her best, and finally stood beside her enemy. She saw the imperial concubine's loneliness when she sat alone late at night, heard the imperial concubine's murmurings when she had a high fever, and even... Began to care about the warmth and coldness of this woman.
Until that late night, the imperial concubine screened everyone away, looked into her eyes and asked: "What is your name?"
She knelt down with tears streaming down her face: "Shen Zhaoning. The daughter of the guilty minister Shen Tingzhong."
The imperial concubine closed her eyes: "I know. I knew it from the day you repaired that skirt."
