Shen Zhaoning was born in a noble and scholarly family in the Qing Dynasty. His father was the minister of the dynasty and he was an upright man. His mother died young and he was raised by his grandmother. She has been extremely smart since she was a child, and is not completely tamed by women. She likes to sneak out of the house to play, and is good at riding horses, throwing pots, and playing in the water. When he was fifteen years old, he was granted marriage by the late emperor and married into the royal palace. When she first entered the palace, she thought she was marrying a beloved man whom she had sincerely laughed with and loved. After the queen entered the palace as a queen, the emperor gradually drifted away, and new people in the harem continued to pour in. After the only prince died in infancy, her heart became colder by the inch. In seven years, she went from a young girl to the most noble and loneliest woman in the palace.
