Huang Yi'an entered the towering imperial palace at fourteen and became empress. Thus began a life of unmatched honor and constant trepidation. Only when she died peacefully at fifty-eight did she finally breathe a sigh of relief...
But before she could finish exhaling, she was astonished to discover that she had returned to the first month of the lunar year when she was thirteen, just as an imperial edict was issued to select a new empress!
Huang Yi'an makes up her mind: in this life, she will break free of those heavy shackles and live happily as herself!