Many years later, when Shen Jingzhi stood on the Zen platform, with heavy snow falling all over the imperial robes, she would always think of the bone-chilling snowy night when her family was wiped out.
She was originally the second daughter of a chef's family in Kyoto. She and her sister Jingluan lived a peaceful life guarding the fire until the tyrant Rong Yao issued an edict to select talented girls, and the two sisters were imprisoned together. Her sister devoted herself to Rong Yao for the family, but Shen Jingzhi relied on his amazing cooking skills to save his father from a trouble at a state banquet, and he was also involved in the whirlpool of the palace. She originally met Xiao Fu, the eldest son of Donghou, who entered the palace as a hostage. The two agreed to find an opportunity to escape from the palace wall, but Xiao Fu disappeared without a trace overnight, and Rong Yao's butcher knife also struck at her family. She was taken into Yeting as a slave and was sent to Dongzhou.
Shen Jingzhi married into the Donghou Mansion with the Ji family as a dowry slave, just to ask Xiao Qi "Why did you leave without saying goodbye", but she discovered the shocking truth - the murderer of her family was the boy she had hidden in her heart. After being heartbroken, she suppressed her desire for revenge and lived in seclusion in the mansion as a concubine. However, due to Xiao Yu's ambition and conspiracy, she gradually became his most powerful arm on the road to rebellion. She went deep into Kyoto to spy on intelligence for him, went on missions for him to connect forces with other countries, watched him ascend to the throne, and watched him gradually get lost in power.
