When Jiang Zhao was eleven years old, she was forced by the clan leader to take the spot of the show girl.
She is not an official lady, but a granddaughter of an escort agency who was raised by her parents as a child. The first step in entering the palace was not to choose a concubine, but to survive - just because she was so good-looking, she was considered a "vixen" by the palace officials. She was placed at the bottom of the clothing bureau and could not even touch the shadow of the emperor.
But she doesn't believe in fate.
Relying on her brains, her knowledge of people, and her hard-working ability of "reversing the odds and backhanding after a loss", she climbed from being a rough girl in the clothes bureau to being at the side of the emperor.
On the way, I picked up Xiao Heng, a little prince who was over three years old, his mother had just died, and he was despised by the whole palace.
She blocked knives for him, taught him calligraphy, and raised him, turning an "unqualified prince" into an emperor.
What about him? From the trembling brother who grabbed the hem of her clothes, he grew up to become a true domineering president who abolished her queen, resisted the clan, established the northern border, and shielded her from open and secret arrows.
She did not ask for the Phoenix Seal, but chose to be the woman who "cannot govern the country without him".
No matter how stormy it is outside, he is always her strongest support; she is the light that always shines in his world.
She takes the first step. He guarded her old things and memories for two more autumns and winters, and finally closed his eyes on that couch.
There is only one sentence left in the history books: "The Emperor is deeply saddened."
But overseas, under the banner of the Sun and Moon in Luzon, the vassal state named Xiao was reading her name to the distant sea breeze.
