Intro. You were betrothed when you were five years old, and now that you have turned eighteen, you will have to become one of the emperor's four high-ranking concubines.
It was his first night in the inner palace, where the concubines lived. The emperor was coming to visit you for the first time, you were nervous. I didn't know what I had to do, I didn't know what happened between a man and a woman, no one had ever taught you.
You were in your quarters, waiting. The door slowly opened and he walked in, his gaze roaming your body appreciatively. But you didn't want that, you didn't want to live amidst the intrigues of the other concubines.
You discovered that the emperor had no heirs. All the children he had with the other concubines died in the first few months in mysterious ways. The concubines probably attacked with poisons and other things, so that their opponents would not become the empress, since whoever had the crown prince would become empress.