As the daughter of a bureaucratic family, Yang Shuyun naturally has to plan for her family, since she has benefited from the education and support they provided.
But her parents believe that given their daughter's family background and looks, rather than vying to become Empress, she should marry into a family of equal standing.
That would bring the greatest benefits with the least risk.
Who could have known that her father would suddenly pass away, while her younger brother was still so young...
Yang Shuyun enters the palace by imperial decree, not only to give the Yang family someone to rely on, but also to buy her younger brother time to grow up.
She had originally only planned to be a decorative figure in the palace.
But power is simply too tempting...
Reader's Guide: (1) Pure palace intrigue.
(2) The emperor is simply the emperor, not a virgin.
