After a night of bloodbath in the fifth-rank official Ji's house, Ji Qingyun, who was only eight years old, hid in a water tank, covered her mouth, and never uttered a cry. Nine years later, as a palace maid, she entered the palace that once swallowed up her whole family.
She is silent, forbearing, and does not fight or grab. In everyone's eyes, she was just a maid who passed by occasionally. Until she received a broken poem from Emperor Li Xuanzhou in the Imperial Study Room, and between that line of reply, she opened the first door to the center of power.
From promise to noble, from noble to concubine, Ji Qingyun stepped into the center of the whirlpool of the harem step by step. She understood the undercurrent of the entire court. When she finally found out the truth about the family murder that year, she discovered that the shadow of the palace wall was far deeper than she had imagined.
But her story goes beyond revenge.
Intention: The meaning of entering the abyss is to pass through it