1 Prologue

I am just an average noble girl.

I was born in a small city from a fifth rank official family. My father may be a low rank official but he didn't deprived his children in etiquette and education.

I am the youngest daughter in the family, Bai Xiu Lan. The pearl of the family.

I have two doting big brothers and a gentle and loving mother.

Our life was simple yet joyous until an unforeseen event occurred in our country that affect our family greatly.

An imperial edict stated that every officials, fifth rank to first rank must send a single daughter in the palace to be tested and to train to become the Emperor's concubines.

My family has no choice but to send me, as the only unmarried female of the family.

As a naive ten years old child. I thought that life in the palace was great and heavenly however how wrong I was.

It was hell.

I and my fellow official daughters competes in every single things everyday.

Be it in four scholarly arts, martial arts talent, background, intellect and of course the beauty and bearing.

Schemes happened every seconds which leads to your own death if you are not careful and foolish.

I, with a lower birth rank than the other girls must be extra cautious and alert.

We started as a palace maid so those of higher birth daughters love to trample and order around those lower rank than them,such as myself.

Three years have passed and I am still a lowly palace maid, its not that I didn't excel in everything, I just don't want to get the attention of others for it can bring me troubles and I don't have enough status to escape it unscathed.

However my understanding about the society where I belonged and humans increased.

My knowledge and perception also became extremely sharp and broad.

A dog eat dog world underneath the luxurious and grand nobles.

Dangers hidden in a flowery words.

Survival of the fittest.

People love to befriended those of person with power and status.

Meaning, I must have power to live untroubled and to survive.

I planned carefully every moves I made and the words I said and will say.

I bribed a hidden expert that I saved to teach me the most powerful weapon a woman can have, art of seduction and temptation.

How can a low rank maid managed to hired a higher rank than her? Of course I spent all my three years of accumulated allowance to hired her and the expert also agreed as I save her life.

I became proficient in it in a year of training.

And the right time to make my greatest move came.

The biggest move I made was to seduce the most powerful personage, the Emperor.

I used every means to get his attention, I used my wit and feminine charm.

Inch by inch, I climbed in ranks and became the Emperor's favorite Imperial Noble Consort at the age of sixteen.

The powerful man was controlled by me in the back of my palm.

The other Consorts may have the backing of their prestigious family but I have the backing of the most noble man.

Some officials called me a temptress. A foxy demon. A calamitous beauty.

That is what I am.

Women in the Harem called me a villainess.

That is my title until I died in my crowning ceremony as a future Empress, at the age of twenty-five but was assassinated by the Emperor's courtiers.

Am I the villainess?

Of course I am!

And I won't mind being one in this new lifetime in this modern times.

My new mother was bullied and humiliated?

I am an unwanted illegitimate daughter ?

Well, can they handle when this consort will counterattack?