She funded a poor scholar for 3 years. The day he became top scholar, he publicly dumped her and sent her to the Regent as a poison tester. 😱

For three years, Shen Zhiyi smiled through humiliation, embroidered night after night, and gave every coin to Pei Shuyan’s rise. Then he won the imperial exam and betrayed her before the whole court—refusing to free her, serving her up as a disposable test subject for the Regent, while her closest friend stole the life-saving embroidery, The Ten Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains. They were sure she had no way out.

But inside the Regent’s mansion, Shen Zhiyi recognizes a rare poison no one else dares touch. She becomes the Regent’s secret cure and ally, earns the seal of a female official, and walks into the Empress Dowager’s birthday feast ready to strike. There, she exposes the stolen masterpiece as a fake, saves the Empress Dowager, and turns every mocking smile into public humiliation. The abandoned woman they buried in shame now holds the court’s darkest secrets in her hands.

Yet the true danger is just unfolding: the Grand Tutor is weaving a deadly web of poison, treason, and forged power, and the Regent’s fierce devotion to her may cost them both everything. When the palace gates lock and the conspirators move in, will she clear her father’s name and claim her revenge—or will the man she’s falling for become her final betrayal? 👇 Watch now to find out.