In her previous life, Shen Qingci was the humblest concubine in the Zhenguo Palace. Her engagement was taken away by her sister-in-law, and she was used as a chess piece by the family and given to the violent prince as a concubine. She was tortured to death. Before she died, she found out that her aunt and uncle had been plotting against her "natural medicine" from the beginning, and wanted to use her blood to make elixirs for the prince to prolong his life.
Once reborn, she returned to the age of fourteen - the rainy night when she was pushed into the lotus pond. This time, she no longer held back.
She set up a trap to make her aunt make a fool of herself in public, exposing her aunt's conspiracy to poison her concubine, forcing her aunt to send her to a girls' school to avoid trouble. In the women's school, she shocked her husband with a policy paper, and secretly made friends with powerful people with her medical skills of bringing the dead back to life.
In order to get rid of family control, she disguised herself as a man and took the pseudonym "Shen Ci". With her extraordinary talent, she won three prizes in a row and became the youngest number one scholar since the founding of the Liang Dynasty. Above the court, she fought with the Confucian scholars to implement the New Deal; below the court, she planned for three years to gradually dismantle the foundation of the government.
However, Xiao Yan, the rumored frail and reclusive Prince of Jin, saw through her disguise time and time again. Instead of exposing her, he secretly fueled the flames. Even when she was granted a marriage by the emperor, he asked her to marry her in court - "I am willing to marry you as the royal concubine. I will only have this wife in my life, and I will never take any concubines."
