Listening to the Phoenix's Song

The Empress Consort entered the palace at eighteen and ascended to the throne at twenty-eight. Gentle and gracious, virtuous and prudent, she died in the tenth year of the Zhengde reign.

That is the life of Empress Jingcheng as recorded in the history books.

Yet Shen Tingyun, the legitimate daughter of the Prime Minister, dazzled everyone with her talent in her youth. After entering the palace, she used herself as a chess piece, promoted commoners, established schools for girls, and curbed the power of the great clans, all without anyone knowing.

Confined within the palace for twenty-six years, she had no regrets toward the world, but she had wronged Xie Jinghuai.

"Merciful and compassionate Guanyin Bodhisattva, may I be granted another life?"

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Theme: Struggle through hardship.