She knelt on the stone steps and waited for her father to wake up. What she was waiting for was the news that her entire family had been poisoned overnight.
On the night of the palace coup, Queen Mother Zhao took action at the same time - the prince was poisoned in the East Palace, and the emperor's medicine was changed in the bedroom. The Daliang royal family lost its heirs overnight. Before his father's death, Ming Zhao obtained the secret edict written in blood and the imperial seal, and escaped from the palace by sneaking into the secret tunnel he had secretly dug when he was seven years old.
But she didn't escape to survive.
Her name was written on the secret edict. There was only one thing she had to do: come back and snatch the dragon chair from the Zhao family.
For this she needs a stand-in. Su Tang, a traveling doctor, has excellent medical and poison skills, and is proficient in disguise. The whole family was wiped out by the Zhao family. The two met in a ruined temple - Su Tang rescued her and recognized that the commander of the imperial army who was chasing her was the person who killed her father. The deal was concluded: Su Tang disguised herself as a princess and returned to the palace to be her eyes. Ming Zhao went north to join the army under the pseudonym Shen Zhao, accumulating military merit and troops from the border.
From then on, the two women exchanged their lives. One is wearing the skin of a princess in the deep palace, and the other is performing meritorious service by killing enemies in men's clothing on the border battlefield. They communicated by secret messages and used a hosta broken in two as a token. Their common enemy was sitting next to the dragon chair, waiting to crush them one by one.
Waiting for the general at the border to find out that the most powerful captain under his command is a woman, waiting for the queen mother in the palace to find out that the princess under her knees is a fake, waiting for the broken hairpin to be put back together again - that's when they fight back to the capital.
