The tyrant Xiao Chengjin had eight queens, but none of them died well - they were either strangled to death, pushed off the Star-Zhaing Tower, or buried in a sea of fire. Gu Mingzhao's sister was the eighth, and she died with Xiao Chengjin's sword in her chest. Three months later, the imperial edict granted marriage, and she became the ninth.
Everyone was waiting to see her become the ninth dead soul in the coffin.
On the wedding night, she stabbed the tyrant in the heart with the poison-quenching gold hairpin, but he pinned her down on the phoenix couch with his backhand. Xiao Chengjin leaned against her ear and said the four words her sister left before she died: "The queen has nine."
——The ninth queen can kill the real murderer.
It turns out that the deaths of the eight queens were not at the hands of the tyrant. They come from eight heavily armed families. They entered the palace just to investigate the truth, but they were assassinated one after another by a strange poison called "Bone Corrosion". The man behind the scenes is his most respected "mother queen", Queen Mother Lu. And Xiao Chengjin himself was also a pawn in this conspiracy that had been manipulated by poison for eighteen years.
Gu Mingzhao only had seven days. If she cannot find an antidote within seven days, she will follow in the footsteps of the eight queens.
She and the tyrant went from testing each other to fighting side by side, uncovering the layers of mystery surrounding the needle hidden in the phoenix seal, the bones in the dry well, and the orphan in the east palace. When the truth came out, she realized that the ninth queen had never come to die.
She was here to end the chess game.
