Transmigrate into a Book
In the book, Su Shuangshuang is a concubine-born daughter of the Duke of Zhennan's household. The heroine is the wife of the heir to the Duke of Zhennan, and the heir is the leader of the Golden Crane Guards, who helped the new emperor ascend the throne and earned great merit in the founding of the dynasty.
Su Shuangshuang goes from an overlooked concubine-born daughter to a beauty in the palace, then a Zhaoyi, after her brother and sister-in-law send her there. As her elder brother's official rank rises, she becomes a Guipin, then Consort Su, then Noble Consort Su. A palace maid from her Palace of the Many Descendants is favored and becomes pregnant, giving birth to the Fourth Prince. The empress's plot against the eldest prince is exposed, and the empress and the Second Prince, who has been made crown prince, rebel and are killed. The Third Prince is confined, the Fourth Prince is named crown prince, and Su Shuangshuang becomes an Imperial Noble Consort.
When the emperor dies, her brother pushes Su Shuangshuang onto the throne as Empress Dowager, making her a puppet.
She thinks the story ends there, with the male and female leads living happily ever after.
But three years after the story's epilogue, the late emperor's eighth younger brother, Prince Cheng, purges the court of corrupt officials, kills her brother, and seizes the position of regent. Then he takes her for himself.
When Su Shuangshuang opens her eyes, she's back in the first chapter of the novel, at the meeting between her brother and sister-in-law. She sees Liu Meng, the Prince of Cheng Commandery, who will later be her lover for more than a decade.
What should she do?
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Theme: Love really does take courage.