When Shen Zhaoning was seven years old, his father's blood stained the stone steps of the Taiwei Mansion red. From that day on, there were only two things left in her life - living and revenge.
She has been hiding under the roof of her enemy for ten years, polishing herself into a sharp knife. She thought she would never trust anyone again in her life until she met him in the peony garden. The young man who was called the "Emperor of Clay Sculpture" looked like a dormant cheetah under his crown. She recognized the same kind.
At first she just used Liu Qi - he was the sharpest knife for her revenge. She gave him information, planned for him, and taught him how to gradually encroach on power in the court. But those secret letters exchanged late at night, and those nights spent side by side deducing the situation under candlelight, made her feel for the first time that living was not just for revenge.
On the night when his adoptive father died, Liu Qi ventured out of the palace late at night to stay with him. Shen Zhaoning took off his disguise and cried bitterly for the first time.
The young man's determined tone said, "I will repay him a hundred times." The two of them became each other's only support. From then on, they got along day and night, and their feelings quietly grew while fighting side by side.
Later Emperor Jingyuan said to the prime minister: "There are half the queens in the world, so why should I be wary of Aning?"
