Synopsis
This is Jiang Yingliu's memoir — Liu'er's story, told from her own mouth, from the day she stumbled into the palace as a Beauty to the day she became Empress. Fifty years inside those walls, written down in plain, quiet sentences that hold more weight than they let on. Everyone in the palace is pitiful in their own way. That's what she keeps coming back to. Rather than the usual scheming and backstabbing you'd expect, the life she describes is mostly peaceful. Small happinesses. Ordinary days. And yet underneath it all, the difficulty never fully disappears — it just goes…
