Fictional setting: The Great Yin Dynasty
All characters, places, and events in this story are fictional and entirely made up. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental.
Reborn amid the flames of the cold palace, her heart full of hatred.
In her previous life, Meng Heng trusted the wrong people and was schemed against by Xiao Jingyuan and Song Qingyao. Her meridians were shattered, and all 136 members of the Meng family were killed.
As the flames consumed her, she swore through her tears of blood that if she had another life, she would make her enemies pay in blood.
She returns to the day the imperial selection ends and she is first named a Rou Attendant.
This time, she puts away her naivete and plots at every turn. She secretly investigates the massacre of the Husheng Village, which once protected the emperor, and digs into the sordid past that Song Hongchang and his wife have hidden for years.
She protects her loved ones, tears away hypocritical masks, and exacts revenge on every enemy in the treacherous game of the inner palace.
The struggle for power in the inner palace is gathering pace. This time, she is the one moving the pieces.
Xiao Qiyuan is ten years older than Meng Heng. He has a complicated romantic past early on, but things get incredibly sweet later.
