A Smile Wipes Away Old Grudges, Bowing to the Phoenix Seal Below the Steps (66 episodes)

At the victory banquet, the general publicly broke off his engagement to marry another woman. She did not weep; instead, she set three conditions to settle all accounts, reclaim her betrothal tokens, and expose hidden letters. With an imperial decree from the Empress Dowager, she turned around to enter the inner palace as empress. The Ji and Ying families colluded to lay traps, bringing private granaries, secret letters, assassinations, and palace coups one after another. Taking the marriage pact as a chessboard and a jade pendant as the key, she shattered the conspiracies before the imperial court. Breaking the engagement was merely the opening move—the inner palace is the true battlefield. Can she hold her throne?

A Smile Wipes Away Old Grudges, Bowing to the Phoenix Seal Below the Steps - Episode 1