Her name is Shen Zhannian, the meanest maid in the cold palace.
Collecting corpses, closing her eyes, and smoking wormwood—this is her daily job. But no one knows that she has a strange ability: within half a stick of incense after death, she can see the secrets that they were most obsessed with during their lifetime from the afterimage of their pupils.
Two years, thirty-seven secret letters, twelve token fragments, and a human skin map. She thought these secrets would be buried forever in the depths of the dry well, until a voice came from the well - "Shen Ziannian, is your mother's person."
The regent wants to sacrifice her blood to heaven, the queen wants to activate the Southern Dynasty blood curse on her, and the mysterious organization "Greedy Wolf" wants to make her into a puppet. Everyone wanted to turn her into a chess piece on the chessboard, but they didn't know that she had already become a chess player from the moment she fell into the dry well.
From the Cold Palace to the Imperial Ancestral Temple, from the palace maid to the sword-holding female official. When she showed the key that her mother had ground from her own bones at the heaven-sacrifice ceremony, all the civil and military officials in the court knelt down - that key did not open a secret grid, but a dead end that spanned sixteen years.
"Daliang owes you Qingnang Pavilion one hundred and forty-eight lives. I will not settle this bloody account. I will ask the successor of Qingnang Pavilion to seal the title of the late emperor."
There is blood feud hidden under the machinations, and there is a human being deep in the cold palace. Who said that the palace maid is inferior to the emperor?
