Shen Zhiyi, a young queen mother who wore a curtain to listen to politics, just sat behind the bead curtain when she heard the civil and military officials of the court scolding her in their hearts.
The chief minister wanted to ignore her, the powerful ministers were waiting to see her make a fool of themselves, and the corrupt officials knelt down and shouted loyal to the emperor, but in their hearts they planned to burn their accounts and silence her. Everyone thought that she was an orphan and a widower, guarding the nine-year-old emperor, and was destined to be just a puppet in the court.
But they didn't know that Shen Zhiyi could hear the voice of the heart.
However, the voice of the heart may not be the truth. A secret someone believes in may be false from the beginning. She can only follow her thoughts to find loopholes, and then use audits, seals, and setups to turn the secret into ironclad evidence that can be brought to court.
Corrupt officials used a scapegoat to take the blame, so she overturned the entire profit chain with a military salary; officials used ancestors to suppress her, so she included the selection of women as scholars in the court regulations; powerful officials wanted to seize her power, so she backhandedly set up six rules and locked her own power in a cage.
Until one day, she tried to listen to the little emperor Xiao Zhiheng.
The voices in the whole hall were clearly audible, but his mind was as silent as the deep sea.
The nine-year-old boy raised his eyes and asked calmly:
"Mother, how much do you still know?"
Shen Zhiyi finally realized that she might not be the only one in this palace hiding secrets that did not belong to this era.
