In her previous life, An Lingrong was timid and meek. Manipulated by the empress and gradually estranged from Zhen Huan, she met a tragic end by taking her own life.
Reborn, she returns to the eve of the palace selection, and all her old convictions are rewritten.
Her first love is Zhen Huan’s elder brother, Zhen Heng. They love each other, but cannot be together.
Through a twist of fate, she enters the palace behind its red walls. She cuts ties with her ill-fated past and refuses to depend on the empress, choosing instead to stand firmly with Zhen Huan.
She keeps her poisonous arts and schemes in check, conceals her sharpness, and moves carefully at every step. In secret, she helps Zhen Huan bring down the arrogant Consort Hua and tear apart the hypocritical empress’s façade.
She treats the emperor’s favor, wealth, and splendor as worthless.
Though the emperor repeatedly summons her to his bedchamber, she rejects him coldly each time, remaining chaste and true to herself.
The harem is swept up in turmoil, while the struggle for imperial power runs red with blood.
Together with Zhen Huan, Ye Lanyi, and her other confidantes, she helps topple the emperor’s authority.
In this life, she will not enter a cage, fight for the empress’s throne, or yearn for imperial power.
An Lingrong casts off the shackles of a palace consort and finally finds her happy ending, spending the rest of her life by the side of her beloved, Zhen Heng.
