Among the thousands of beautiful concubines in the harem, she was not the most outstanding; amidst the scheming and power struggles, she only wished to preserve her own wisdom and avoid trouble. However, as fate would have it, she found herself involuntarily entangled in one harem conflict after another. A single line of poetry, "the cold loneliness of the sandy islet," led the matchmaker to bring their red threads of destiny together. A court incident almost caused them to miss each other forever. The veiled accusations of a concubine sowed doubts in his heart about her.
In the end, when all the dust settles, will her wish come true?
With elegant and concise prose, intricately woven psychological descriptions, delicate emotions, and poignant storylines, she floats and sinks through one harem struggle after another until everything finally comes to rest. Love, this ultimate happiness that every woman yearns for, remains out of her reach. The person she loves dies for her, and the person she wants to trust and rely on cannot be hers alone. In this life, who, ultimately, is the greatest winner?
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