In the seventh year of Yongxi's reign, the minister of household affairs was convicted of a water shortage, and the concubine Shen Heng was forced to enter the palace in place of his sister.
Everyone regarded her as an abandoned child sent by the Shen family to fill a hole. Even the queen in charge of the Sixth Palace only regarded her as a chess piece that could be discarded at any time.
Shen Heng never complained about his fate.
She knew that there was no favor in the palace for no reason, nor was there glory in vain.
If you want to survive, you must make the emperor think that she is useful, beautiful, and inseparable.
She solved the emperor's old ailments with her perfume-making skills, and hid her sharpness with a gentle and submissive attitude.
He moves forward step by step amid fights between concubines, party feuds between former dynasties, and family betrayals.
At first, the young emperor just thought that she was like a begonia blooming just right, which was pleasing to the eye and quite fresh and interesting.
Later, he was shocked to realize that she was the only one who could understand his loneliness when the court was turned upside down.
When the palace was filled with blood, she was the only one who dared to hold his bloody hand while everyone was avoiding him.
But when he finally became sincere, Shen Heng wanted more than just divine favor, but to earn a destiny for himself that no one could control.
