Shen Qingyi, the daughter of the Minister of Rites, was fostered in her maternal ancestral home in Jiangnan since she was a child. When she was sixteen years old, an edict called her back to the capital, and she was forced to enter the palace draft instead of her eldest sister. She had no intention of competing for favor, she just wanted to find a safe place in the palace. But on the first night after entering the palace, there was a bloody dagger under the pillow. Only then did Shen Qingyi realize that someone in this magnificent palace had already laid out a plan for her.
