The Noble Consort told me she had traveled here from another world, and that we were all characters in a novel.
She was the heroine, I was the wicked second female lead, and the emperor was the hero.
She was determined to win him over.
Sure enough, she took his undivided favor, then my authority over the palace women.
She even wanted my throne as empress.
“What do you have to rely on but a man’s affection?”
I had finally had enough.
This woman from another world had no power whatsoever.
How dared she reach for my position?
“A sparrow is still a sparrow.
Even if I gave up this phoenix’s nest, could you hold it?”
My ancestors had helped found the dynasty.
My great-grandfather had saved an emperor’s life and received the extraordinary honor of burial in the imperial mausoleum.
My father had inherited the title of duke, and my elder brother was now a chancellor of the first rank.
“You call this ‘palace intrigue,’ do you?
Then let us see what you have to pit against me.”
