The Nine Princes Battle for the Throne, and the Fourth Prince Begs Me for Advice!

At a routine greeting, Su Yunlan publicly humiliated the trusted aide of Concubine Li.

Others thought she was competing for her lord’s favor. Only she knew that she was fighting to keep Prince Fourth’s household alive through the power struggle among the nine princes.

Reborn as a low-ranking concubine from the Five Banners bondservant class, she had no powerful family to support her, only an old archive detailing the course of the succession struggle.

She knew before anyone else who would fall from favor and which conflicts to avoid.

What she offered Yinzhen was not tenderness, but a bargaining chip to help him evade deadly plots.

She used the Eighth Prince’s faction to root out hidden spies in the inner household, turning every attempt to frame them into evidence for Prince Fourth.

But when a salt-tax case in Jiangnan revealed the real insider in the prince’s household, Yinzhen began to suspect her for the first time…