Three years after the empress ascended the throne, she founded Qingluantai and selected women from aristocratic families to serve as female officials in the palace. The name was training but they were actually hostages. Shen Shiyi, the most inconspicuous concubine in the Rong'an Marquis Mansion, was pushed out to replace her eldest sister. The whole capital was betting that she wouldn't survive three months. No one knew that when she was seven years old, her entire family was beheaded, and it was the empress who dug her out of a mass grave. After twelve years of training in the dark, she became the Empress's sharpest knife.
On the first day she entered Qingluan Terrace, she met that person, Xiao Changyuan, Prince Yuan, the ninth son of the late emperor, who was only one step away from the throne. He saw through her at the first glance: "Your eyes are too quiet, not like a concubine."
Since then, a game with the country as a stake has unfolded between two people who should least have met. Testing, using, cooperating, breaking up, every step was taken to the extreme, except for each other. They are enemies, kindred spirits, and the only people in the world who can rival them. The New Deal touched the foundation of the clan, and Xiao Changyuan launched an army. It was snowing in the capital on the eve of the decisive battle, and he kissed the bleeding wound on the corner of her lip outside the palace gate: "If we say goodbye forever, I will pay back what you owe me." She bit him on the lip, turned around and walked into the wind and snow, without looking back. On the day when the army came to the city, she personally presented his seven-year intelligence network to the empress.
The dust has settled. The empress asked her what to do with King Yuan. She only said four words: "Confinement, no killing." He was imprisoned in the imperial mausoleum for life. Before leaving, I took a detour to the imperial mausoleum and placed a jar of wine at his door with a line of words engraved on the bottom. He heard her footsteps fading away through the door, but she made no sound.
The king is successful and the bandits are defeated, and the country is the situation. None of them said that from beginning to end. But they all knew it.
