I Am the Decoration Queen

In the fifteenth year of Wanli, the Forbidden City. The lights in Kunning Palace are always just right - not dazzling and not warm enough. She is the empress of the Ming Dynasty, the mother of the country, and the emperor's wife. But the emperor never regarded her as his wife. She knew her end: a forty-two-year career as a queen with no favor, no children, and no love. In the end, she left the words "virtuous but sickly" in the history books, and the story was over. If she had to do it again, she still couldn't change anything. The emperor would still fall in love with Concubine Zheng, the feud over the country would still bring down the court, and she would still live to the forty-eighth year of Wanli and then die silently. But she decided that this time, she would change her way of life. She no longer sheds tears when she sits alone late at night, but reads and writes under the lamp, lighting a real lamp for herself. She no longer resented the imperial concubine's provocation, but learned to carve out a small world for herself in this deep palace. She can't change the direction of history, but she can change the way she goes about history. This is not a story about changing fate against fate. This is the story of a woman who, after knowing the end of her destiny, still chooses to live her life well.