[Unconventional palace intrigue + exclusive devotion + soul transmigration]
Before she transmigrated, Yin Zhao was an adopted daughter.
When she was fourteen, she killed her adoptive father, who abused her adoptive mother. After getting out of prison, she sacrificed her youth to run her adoptive mother’s company and secure her brother’s position, working like a machine that never tired. All she wanted was a chance to stop: get engaged, secure her share of the company, and spend the rest of her life lying flat.
Then she died.
When she opened her eyes again, she was an orphaned daughter of a grand tutor in the Yong dynasty, a Jieyu who had been in the palace for six months without ever laying eyes on the emperor.
She had an illustrious family background, but no support left behind. She was gentle and bookish, and wanted no part of the world.
It was practically the perfect identity for lying flat. She’d had enough of fighting in her previous life. This time, she just wanted to eat her fill and wait to die in the palace. If anyone came looking for trouble, she’d treat it like a fart and let it go.
But trouble refused to leave her alone.
When Lady Li made things difficult for her, the emperor reprimanded Lady Li. When the Noble Consort schemed against her, the Empress Dowager cleared the obstacles in her path.
After all, in addition to being perfect for lying flat, this identity made her an ideal pawn in the balance of imperial power, a target pushed to the front to take the arrows. She accepted it. A pawn was a pawn, and she didn’t want to lift a finger anyway.
From a decisive corporate heiress who could take lives to a concubine who only wanted to eat her fill and wait to die, Yin Zhao’s goal after transmigrating was crystal clear: in this life, no one was going to make her use her brain again.
The cold young emperor suddenly began protecting her at every turn, while the Empress Dowager, who ruled from behind the curtain, took a liking to her as soon as she returned to court.
With the powerful protection of this mother-and-son pair, Yin Zhao somehow won her way through the entire harem and rose straight to the phoenix throne.
On the night she was elevated to empress, Chu Yuan brushed a hand over her eyes. “I’ve waited for you for far too long.”
Good review of the cover 👍