Xue Ci, the Concubine's Daughter

[My new story, Many Angsty Dog-Blooded Novels About Possessive Love, is now open for readers! Please add it to your collection. See my author page!] Consort Xue Ci discovers a shocking secret... The Emperor Your Majesty, whom she adores, might not be the Emperor Your Majesty standing before her Σ( ° △ °|||)︴ A heroine who goes from calmly protecting herself to striving for dominion over the world VS ... the hero [The straightforward version] Xue Ci, who has fifteen siblings, is one of the many daughters born to concubines in the Xue family. You can imagine all the troubles that entails ╭(╯^╰)╮ Life is hard, and there are more lunatics than she ever imagined... Fighting heaven is great fun; fighting lunatics... takes a little imagination. She battles her way through every obstacle, rising from a lowly concubine's daughter to a noble consort of the palace. Then Xue Ci runs into the biggest and most imaginative trouble of her life... [Kindly reminder] There are many lunatics in this story, so please look upon them with compassionate affection, as you would a patient. Thanks! Also, all the setting details serve the plot, so don't nitpick. This is entirely fictional, and very, very, very loosely based on anything! Theme: Details determine success or failure. Be bold and meticulous, and when the moment is right, act without hesitation.