Transmigrated as a general's legitimate daughter, Ji Zhao is forced to enter the palace selection from the start.
Palace intrigue?
Not interested.
All Ji Zhao wants is to keep her head down in some corner until old age.
But someone accuses her father of treason, someone slips poisoned pastries into her palace, and others scheme openly and in secret to wipe out the Ji family.
With blades closing in from every direction, they force her to flip the table.
Fine. If you want to play, I'll play along!
She investigates military funds, sorts out a medicine scandal, draws maps, foils assassination plots, and defends the capital, climbing all the way from Noble Lady to Empress.
Others rely on cunning to survive palace intrigue. She relies on the ability to make the entire court fall silent.
She thought that would be the end of it.
Then the young emperor, who once only wanted to use her, walks for half an hour through a snowy night to knock on her door. He lays half his empire before her and says hoarsely, “I've waited a long time for you to say yes.”
