Modern woman Li Wei wakes up as Nian Shilan, the arrogant and overbearing Consort Hua from Empresses in the Palace.
The moment she opens her eyes, she finds herself in a dead end. In just a few days, she is supposed to poison Princess Wenyi with cassava flour, starting the countdown to her downfall at Zhen Huan’s hands.
Knowing the original story inside out, she instead turns the poison into a yam and poria cake. One remark, “Children have delicate stomachs,” throws the entire palace into an uproar.
Faced with the empress’s probing, Zhen Huan’s scrutiny, and the emperor’s suspicion, she carefully plots her way out of the trap.
But while everyone else thinks Consort Hua has changed her ways, only she knows the truth: every step she takes is a dance along the blade’s edge of her original fate.
This time, Consort Hua refuses to be a discarded pawn.
