When Su Zhiruan first arrived in this world, she quickly grasped the composition of the Imperial Family.
The Old Emperor was lustful, with three thousand beauties in the harem and numerous offspring; there were over twenty Princes and Princesses combined. The youngest Prince was ranked eleventh and still in swaddling clothes. Among the Princesses, apart from the legitimate Eldest Princess, the Third Princess, and the Second Princess born to the Favored Concubine, most Princesses lived in hardship, just like the original host, buried deep in the palace, without the Old Emperor's attention, possibly being pulled out one day as tools for political exchange.
The Wan Dynasty had yet to establish a successor, with Princes embroiled in fierce struggles, none willing to yield, all desiring to eliminate their brothers to seize the supreme status.
