In the third year of Yongning in the Liang Dynasty, Yunling, the daughter of the Shen family, was drafted into the palace as the daughter of a seventh-rank imperial editor.
She has no prominent family background, no peerless appearance, and no blessing from fate. All she has is an exquisite heart with seven orifices and a pair of hard bones that she has to swallow even if she breaks her teeth.
When she first entered the palace and granted a title to a talented person, she was walking on thin ice amidst the strife between concubines and concubines. The queen's ruthlessness under her dignity, the concubine's sinister greed after being favored, the knife in the dimple of the concubine's smile - within this red wall, everyone is eating and being eaten.
Shen Yunling did not fight or grab, but worked hard at every step. She doesn't harm others, but she never guards against them. It took her ten years to climb from a low-level talent to the head of the first palace; another ten years to overthrow the queen, replace the noble concubine, and become the real master of the harem; in the last ten years, she personally helped her adopted son to the throne, listened to the government behind the curtain, and had all the power in the world.
But when she finally stood at the top, she discovered that there was never a winner in this palace wall.
