Su Qing, a modern corporate high-flyer, dies suddenly after staying up all night to finish the finale of Empresses in the Palace. When she wakes, she has become the principal consort of Prince Yong’s household: Pure Consort.
Unfortunately, this isn’t a wish-fulfillment story. She knows that in the original plot, she enters the household four months into her pregnancy and dies in childbirth in the eighth month. The one who kills her is none other than her gentle, considerate younger sister, Yixiu. Even more bitterly, she is already pregnant, with just eight months left to live.
The good news: She’s watched the whole story.
The bad news: She’s the one who gets poisoned.
With her sister already destined to turn evil, the concubines in the rear court watching her every move, and Fourth Prince Yinzhen treating her as his “perfect replacement,” Su Qing decides she’s done playing along.
You try to harm me? I’ll use modern psychology to turn the tables. You try to seize power? I’ll crush you with management theory. You treat me like your unattainable first love? I’ll use my political savvy to make you kneel and say, “The empress is simply the best.”
This time, Pure Consort won’t be written off.
In this man-eating Forbidden City, she’ll turn a hand of cards that should mean certain death into an immortal legend.
“You think I’m just an untouchable first love? No. I’m the one here to rewrite the ending.”
