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In the fifth year of Jiading, Jiang Ran entered the palace as a consort. From then on, a gentle blade would stir up storms.
Jiang Ran, the legitimate daughter of a marquis’s household in the Great Yong dynasty, lost her birth mother young. Her stepmother was cruel, and her father looked on coldly. An imperial decree ordering her to enter the selection sent her into the deep palace, where her entire family had conspired to have her die without a sound.
But the real legitimate daughter of the marquis’s household had already died in the countryside, wrapped in a straw mat for burial, unknown to everyone.
Driven by vanity, she looked at Jiang Ran’s face, which resembled her own almost exactly, and shamelessly stripped the dead girl of her clothes and put them on. She picked up the selection summons and took up this new identity, as though she were picking up a blade that could cut her way through fate.
She stroked her pale, sixteen-year-old reflection in the mirror and laughed softly.
In her “past life,” she had barely managed to survive. Why not go mad for once in this “life”?
The emperor was deep and inscrutable, so she used her clever wiles to advance step by step.
Her childhood sweetheart’s devotion never wavered, so she wept like a white lotus and turned him into the sharpest sword beyond the palace walls.
Until the palace steps ran red with blood and he fell from grace to protect her.
As his breath faded, his bloodied fingers brushed her cheek, and he suddenly smiled. “I know… you were never her.”
Jiang Ran was struck speechless. His gaze slowly dimmed, and his final words were as faint as a sigh: “But I still… want to protect you.”
She knelt in the pool of blood, stunned for a long time.
It turned out that someone in this world had seen through every one of her disguises, yet still chosen to die for her.
It was just a pity that she wasn’t the woman he thought she was, and she had never loved him.
The heroine is selfish, yet conflicted, and rises to the pinnacle of power while struggling between using others and being sincere.
Theme: Even in darkness, you can become your own light.
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