From Coward to Empress: A Palace Maid's Rise to Power

She trembled before the emperor—until survival demanded boldness. Su Nanchu enters the palace as a cautious maid who knows when to kowtow and when to play dead, dancing dangerously along the edge of the emperor's patience. She apologizes profusely, then breaks the rules again. But Shen Jingzhi, the suspicious and calculating ruler, finds her antics oddly... entertaining. In a palace of deadly intrigue and suffocating protocol, this restless little troublemaker becomes his unexpected diversion. As he indulges her growing audacity, teaching her etiquette she cheerfully ignores, something shifts.…