In the seventh year of Yongyuan of the Eastern Han Dynasty (95 years), Deng Sui, the daughter of the Deng family in Nanyang, entered the palace at the age of 15. At that time, Emperor Liu Zhaozheng of the Han Dynasty, as a young hero, used the harem to check and balance the power of his relatives. In this conspiracy that used women as pawns, Deng Sui used the strategy of "hiding the front" to endure and survive. After going through the case of the Queen of Yin's witchcraft, He Di Tuogu, the death of Emperor Shang, Zhou Zhang's rebellion, Qiang chaos, and frequent natural disasters, he finally reached the pinnacle of power and ruled the dynasty for sixteen years.
She restrained her relatives with an iron fist, promoted the gentry with clean and honest standards, supported science and technology with practical knowledge of the world, and quelled the Qiang rebellion with the strategy of suppression and appeasement. However, when Emperor An of Han, whom she single-handedly raised, grew up, the rift between mother and son regarding the "return to power" deepened day by day.
This book uses years as its warp and events as its latitude, and follows the historical context to show how an aristocratic girl endured the strife in the harem to survive, strategized in the court games, and finally became a virtuous empress, and how she was exhausted at the peak of her power.
