An imperial edict conferring marriage nailed Xiao Qiongju to the throne of "Future Queen".
Her husband was as gentle as jade, but he whispered in her ear: "Beauty is the most useless thing in this palace."
She was forced to become the royal family's most precious fertility vessel. The first lesson she learned in the splendid cage was to bury her face and soul with her own hands.
At the same time, her inconspicuous concubine Xiao Youning was quietly putting away the token of the previous dynasty left by her biological mother.
She is good at calculations, looks on with a cold eye, and regards the people's livelihood and suffering as chips on the chessboard. Until that night, she pushed a book that could subvert the court's situation to the time-traveling prince-consort who had the world in mind.
"Cooperation?" His eyes were filled with ideal light.
"No," she smiled, "we're taking advantage of each other."
When an abandoned concubine meets a cold-blooded counselor,
When useless beauty meets cold power,
They are each other's most painful weakness and the only knife in desperate situations.
The world thinks this is a house fight about concubines and favor.
Later, the emperor on the dragon throne discovered——
The balance he had carefully maintained was being dismantled inch by inch by two women he had never laid eyes on.
Food guide:
1. The two female protagonists are truly career-minded, and the bonds of family ties are higher than love.
2. A Machiavellian drama about women's awakening, from resisting fate to rewriting the rules.
3. The male protagonist(s) are the background, and the focus is on how they go from "being objectified" to "playing chess".
Purpose: Female awakening and female power