Ying Chong

The Empress Dowager Yi’an, a master of palace intrigue, has finally achieved complete merit and virtue. Her son is the emperor, and although her early life was full of misfortune, she was doted on by the previous emperor in her later years. If there was anything that ever troubled her, it was the emotional exhaustion that came with palace life. But tell me—who in this deep palace isn’t weary of it all? One day, she wakes up to find herself back at fifteen, still a thin horse sent to the capital as a tool for securing favor. And that’s how the story begins… Note : “thin horse” [shòu mǎ 瘦马] was a term used to denote girls reared specifically for the purpose of supplying Yangzhou City’s [Jiangsu Province] concubine market.