Chu Lanyu entered the palace at the age of sixteen and just wanted to live.
From choosing attendants to nobles, from cold palaces to virtuous concubines, she learned every word Bai Jingshu taught: "In this palace, there are no benefactors, only creditors."
She owed Chen Yunshu a life, so she avenged her injustice; she owed Ke Chiyu a deal, so she personally gave him poisoned wine; she owed He Xinyang a "Lan Yu", so she gave him a cup of "Your Majesty".
She raised Xue Jingyi and taught him the first lesson of power. He called her "mother concubine" when he was fourteen, and "came to court side by side" with her at the age of twenty-four. Before his death at the age of thirty-four, he asked her: "Is this your plan, or..."
"I don't know either," she lowered her eyes, "I only know that I can't live without you."
This is not love. This is the only honesty a power animal can have.
Demining: The heroine is not a good person, her hands are stained with blood, and there is no way to clean up her innocence.
Adoptive mother-child relationship spiritual attachment, no □□
All BE, no happy ending, no redemption
Intent: The self-replication of the power structure and the demise of the individual