Shen Qingluan only wants to be a quiet, idle palace concubine in the Cold Palace, munching on melon seeds.
With the Heavenly Dao gossip System, she thought she was an obscure bystander behind the scenes.
Little does she know that the palace's biggest mad tyrant is crouched beneath her wall every day, secretly listening to her broadcasts!
She exposes the chief eunuch for hiding a stash of private money, and the tyrant raids his home that very night.
She reveals that the concubines' intimate apparel is laced with biochemical poison. The entire sisterhood of consorts switches sides and turns the Cold Palace into a sacred place for making wishes.
She exposes a court official for raising the illegitimate child of his sworn enemy, and two century-old aristocratic clans fall out and start tearing into each other right in court!
She reveals that the Grand Secretary sleepwalks in thunderstorms to write confessions, and that the tombs of his ancestors have been dug up and rendered into oil by foreigners. The enemy army mutinies and switches sides overnight!
Others fight in the palace with schemes. Shen Qingluan fights in the palace with spoiler comments.
She keeps herself alive by gossiping, and ends up the darling of the court and the lucky star of the harem.
But whenever she tries to quit and run away, the tyrant is already seeing red. He scoops her into his arms with one hand:
"There are still three ministers' secrets we haven't gotten through today."
"If we don't finish them, my beloved isn't going anywhere tonight."
