On the first day after entering the palace, Gu Chaoyan missed the point.
She is the sharpest knife in Wuhen Tower. She was ordered to sneak into the palace as a beautiful woman, with the goal of targeting the emperor's head. I visited the cold palace late at night, but I saw Queen Shen Jinghong squatting under a withered locust tree and burning paper money - on the anniversary of the death of 123 people in the Shen family, she had been burning paper money alone for three years.
Eyes facing each other. Shen Jinghong took out a dagger from his sleeve, with the handle facing her.
"What a coincidence. I'm here to kill him too."
One is a sword raised by the number one assassin organization in the world, and the other is a queen who has endured for three years and carved the list of enemies all over the secret passage. From the night Leng Gong handed over the knife, this palace city was destined to change.
During the day, they were queens and concubines competing for favor. At night, they are allies drinking a pot of tea together in the secret passage of the cold palace. Remove the concubines, overthrow the queen mother, and empty the harem - every step is on Shen Jinghong's chessboard, and every step is on the tip of Gu Chaoyan's knife.
But when Gu Chaoyan discovered that the executor of the Shen family's extermination was Wuhenlou, the two knives originally pointing in the same direction were pointed at each other for the first time.
"I didn't do those things. But Wuhenlou raised me. If you want to hate me, then hate me."
"I hated it. But I hated the days when you were away even more."
From daggers in the cold palace to regicide side by side, from fighting in the north to jointly governing the country - they spent half their lives fighting their way out, and then went to see the mountains and the sea together.