Bamboo Plan·phoenix in the Mirror

She died three times before she learned how to exchange her white hair for a life. In the eyes of others, Su Zhu is a merchant girl who hides her incompetence to survive in the needlework bureau, and is a chess piece on the emperor's chessboard that can be discarded at any time. In fact, she is an experimental sample for Rong Ji to observe the limits of human nature - the thirty-six spiritual bamboo beads around her neck, which give her extreme calmness and overclocked brain power every time in desperate situations, use her lifespan as fuel, and the price is the gray hair on her temples. She thought she would be able to survive if she was smart enough, until the blood on Nanny Chen's forehead when she hit a pillar was still wet, and the thirteen-year-old Xiao Dezi left his final testimony on the account book with his bloody handprint. At the moment when family ties were crushed to ashes by power, Su Zhu realized: No one in this palace would save her. The only one who can save her is herself. Rong Ji sat in the center of the seven-layer power network, slowly turning the red sandalwood beads in his hand. He set up five rebirths and death situations just to test a proposition: When a person is forced into a desperate situation, what kind of light can wisdom burst out? He thought he was controlling the chess game, but he didn't know that once the chess pieces started thinking, they would no longer be willing to be manipulated. Su Zhu stood on the edge of the cliff of power, with an abyss behind him and deeper darkness in front of him. She can choose to continue to be a sharp knife, or she can choose to turn the tip of the knife to the person holding the chess piece at the last moment. From survivors to avengers, from chess pieces to chess players. Su Zhu paved the road of transformation with blood and measured the peak of power with white hair. When the spirit bamboo bead was completely dimmed, her old face and the emperor's silent eyes were reflected in the bronze mirror. The woman in the mirror has snow-like hair on her temples and bright eyes. Purpose: This book tells the story of Su Zhu, a merchant girl, who trades her life for sobriety in the feudal power network, and transforms from a manipulated chess piece into a game-breaker. Rejecting dependence and cheating, focusing on women's extreme rationality and resilience in desperate situations, exploring how individuals can regain the initiative in destiny under systemic oppression and break the cycle of power of "controlling and being controlled".