Xu Zhaowei was still alive, but the palace register said: "Lady Xu, deceased of illness."
Transmigrated into the lowest-ranking imperial consort, she became pregnant in a palace where no baby had cried in seven years. Before the happy news could spread, an order to strike her from the records was issued, sending her to a convalescent residence and erasing both her name and her past.
Clutching the paperwork she had managed to keep, she used the skills she'd gained organizing medical records to check the old registers. Starting with a name recorded as dead, she uncovered one unclaimed monthly allowance after another.
But even after her identity was finally confirmed, the palace rules had already decided what would happen to her child: once the royal heir turned one month old, another consort would be chosen to raise them.
The emperor wanted to promote her, but she pushed a care plan in front of him.
"This concubine doesn't know how. You can have someone teach me. But why does the child have to be taken away in the end?"
From reclaiming her identity to fighting to raise her own child, every step she took meant challenging the old rules of the palace. Lu Chengjing gradually began to cherish her, but she still wanted his promise written down, where everyone involved could see it clearly.
She wanted to live well, and she wanted her child to stay by her side after birth.
