Summary
Wanxin and I were the Empress’s senior palace maids. All her life, the Empress loved freedom. Before she fell from the tower, she even arranged a way out for us. She told Wanxin to leave the palace and see Jiangnan for her-the place she had longed for day and night. As for me, she sent me to the imperial bed, saying she would grant me wealth and glory unmatched in all the world. In my previous life, I became Xiao Yin’s Beauty Li. I spent my whole life trapped within the palace, yet never once won the emperor’s favor. In bed, he would always mock me with cold contempt. “The Empress had only just died, and you were already climbing into the imperial bed. You truly are heartless and ungrateful.” Even the son and daughter the Empress left behind came to see me as their lifelong enemy under Xiao Yin’s subtle prompting. Reborn into this life, I knelt before the Empress and begged: “This servant has a lover. He has been waiting for me in Jiangnan for three years.” “Please allow this servant to leave the palace.”