After transmigrating into an old palace-intrigue novel, Gu Qingci became a sickly beauty and a cannon-fodder character in the Cold Palace.
In the original novel, she died after just three chapters: poisoned, coughing up blood, and forgotten by everyone.
On her first day there, a nanny brought a bowl of poison and forced her to open her mouth.
Gu Qingci took one look. “Realgar, oleander, and Cold Bone Powder. Nanny, if you want to kill me, you don’t need to use the Empress Dowager’s name as an excuse.”
With three needles, she saved the eunuch by the tyrant’s side and stepped out of the Cold Palace.
The imperial concubines laughed that a sickly thing like her wouldn’t live through the winter.
That was until she dragged the tyrant off his throne and drove a needle into his chest.
“Your Majesty has been poisoned. I’m saving you.”
Later, the tyrant gripped her waist, his eyes bloodshot.
“If you dare save someone else, I’ll kill you.”
“If you dare leave me, I’ll kill everyone.”
“I only want you.”
