On the day her entire family was sentenced to death, she hid beneath a pile of corpses and memorized her enemies' names.
She enters the palace as a condemned servant, working her way from the Laundry Bureau to the imperial study.
She is a prisoner in chains; he is an emperor in name only.
The world thinks they are pawns, never realizing that they are the ones moving the pieces.
She says, “I want revenge.”
He says, “I want the empire.”
In time, she becomes his empress, and he becomes her blade.
The emperor kneels before her. “Shen Qingci, I’ll give you half my empire. Will that be enough?”
She says, “No. I want you.”
