Shen Qingci is the most inconspicuous concubine in the Zhenguo Palace. Her mother died young and her aunt treated her harshly. She lives like an invisible person in the palace. When she was fifteen years old, her eldest sister Shen Qingyuan suddenly fell ill before her wedding. She was forced to take her place in the palace and became the first batch of beautiful girls selected by the new emperor after he ascended the throne.
Everyone thought she was just going through the motions to fill a spot.
But no one knew that Shen Qingci had been in charge of the Central Palace for more than thirty years in another time and space, and had gone from being an abandoned concubine in the cold palace to becoming the powerful Regent Queen Mother. In the last life, she lost to her own softness; in this life again, she only asks for four words——
Live happily.
After entering the palace, she used an old purse to recognize her current emperor. He was actually the adopted son who she had helped to ascend to the throne and died with her own hands in her previous life. The way Xinti looked at her contained complex emotions that only she could understand. And the concubine who caused her whole family to fall into ruin in her previous life is still playing the role of a gentle, respectful and thrifty good sister.
The twelve palaces in the harem are full of troubles; the thirty-six yamen in the front are murderous at every step.
Shen Qingci chose to strike preemptively this time. She doesn't fight for favor or flattery, but she decides life and death between tea cups and settles grudges in the chess game. If someone sets up a trap, she will break it; if someone plots a scheme, she will fight back. When her eldest sister knelt at her feet and begged for mercy, she only smiled faintly: "Sister, do you know that I like this road you chose for me to enter the palace back then?"
The new emperor sat alone late at night, silent for a long time while looking at the secret report in his hand, and said to the eunuch beside him: "I always feel that the way she looks at me is like looking at an old friend who has come back from the dead."
He wants the country, she wants freedom.
