Shen Zhaoning, the most inconspicuous concubine in the family of the Minister of Household Affairs.
Everyone knows that she is docile and well-behaved, but they don't know that she was secretly raised as a substitute for the former princess since she was a child. She is good at playing music, chess, calligraphy and painting, statecraft, and the power of people.
At a palace banquet, she amazed everyone and was adopted by the prince as his concubine. That night when she entered the East Palace, she realized that she was just a chess piece and could be discarded at any time.
But she never accepts her fate.
When she was caught in a murderous plot and her life hung on a thread, Prince Xiao Yanzhi of Jing'an offered her an olive branch.
This man appears to be sickly and frail, but in reality he is deeply sinister. He has kept a low profile for many years and has had more blood on his hands than anyone else. He doesn't need an obedient chess piece, he wants a woman who can stand by his side in the world.
He said: "Be my ally and I will grant you freedom."
She replied: "I don't want freedom. I want no one in this world to control a woman's destiny."
From a substitute chess piece to a generation of empress, from a deep palace cage to the top of Kyushu.
It took her ten years to tell the world——
A chess piece can also be the person playing chess.
>——Your Majesty, your queen has turned dark.
——No, she just finally became herself.
