When Ye Nian'an first entered the palace, no one thought she would be a threat.
So what if her family was prominent and she was made a noble consort as soon as she arrived?
She looked so frail a breeze could knock her over. She couldn't even win the emperor's favor, let alone bear him a prince.
She might die before long. Why waste effort targeting her?
Only the transmigrator with a Favored Consort System kept her eyes fixed on Noble Consort Ye Nian'an's position. But she waited and waited, and Ye Nian'an never seemed to die of illness.
More astonishing still, when the new emperor took the throne, Ye Nian'an was promoted to Grand Dowager Consort and was still alive and well. She even outlived the new emperor, becoming the Supreme Grand Dowager Consort!
On the day Ye Nian'an was elevated to Supreme Grand Dowager Consort, a palace maid newly assigned to Changning Palace complained to the head maid, "I heard Her Highness the Supreme Grand Dowager Consort is in poor health. She's been sick three or four times this month. What if one day... What will we do?" The atmosphere in Changning Palace was relaxed, untouched by the harem's power struggles. After working there, she didn't want to go anywhere else.
The head maid fell silent for a long while at those familiar words, then comforted her. "There's no need to worry."
Even when you're twenty-five and sent out of the palace, the Supreme Grand Dowager Consort will still occasionally become gravely ill, but nothing will ever happen to her.
After all, people say every year that Ye Nian'an won't live through the winter. Yet didn't she outlast two emperors and become the Supreme Grand Dowager Consort?