When Zhaozhao first arrived in the capital, she was merely the daughter of a kept woman. Though blessed with an otherworldly beauty, her status was lowly and she was trampled by everyone. Her birth father was about to give her away to curry favor with the powerful.
Everyone who met her said she had a pair of eyes that made you ache for her, eyes you wanted to pluck out and treasure carefully.
The man who said that later had his eyes fed to the dogs by Zhaozhao.
She had three emperors as husbands in her life, and unfortunately, every one of them died by her hand.
Theme: Women are born with a desire for power.