Su Nuo entered the palace with her excellent pastry and flower tea skills. She never thought about competing for a high position or monopolizing favors. She just wanted to study in eating flowers and plants quietly in the palace. After entering the palace, minor frictions arose between several empresses in the harem due to taste preferences, daily routines, and misunderstandings: Concubine Li would get into trouble because the emperor praised the sweet-scented osmanthus cake made by Su Nuo, concubine Hui would be secretly sad because everyone was joking and not bringing her along, and Aunt Shangshi would worry that the heroine making snacks privately was against the rules of the palace.
Su Nuo never counterattacked with calculations, but used thoughtful delicacies, heart-warming sachets, and cultivated flowers to untie everyone's knots little by little: making beauty-loving concubines like peach nectar, embroidering soothing purses for sensitive concubines Hui, stewing warm white fungus soup for the hard-working empress, and cooperating with the Shangshi Bureau to optimize the harem's daily meals.
Every time Emperor Xiao Heng visited the harem, he could eat heart-warming snacks in Su Nuo's small courtyard. Seeing the vibrant flowers and plants in the garden, he was gradually attracted by her gentle and healing temperament. He often came to the small courtyard to chat about daily life. Everyone in the harem put aside their grudges amid the delicious food and warmth, and held flower banquets, tea parties, and embroidery exchange meetings together, and they became more harmonious with each other.
In the later period, Su Nuo also took the lead in improving the harem snack formula, enriching the daily meals of the concubines and palace residents, and adding a lot of fireworks and warmth to the life in the harem. In the end, Su Nuo did not need to be in a high position, but she became a woman loved by everyone in the harem and truly cherished by the emperor. The palace was no longer deserted and depressing, and everywhere was filled with gentle fireworks.