#一寸相思一寸灰

Every Shred of Longing Turns to Ash

Former Concubine Su Wanqing was imprisoned in the cold palace for thirty years due to a false treason charge. On her deathbed, her only wish is to find her missing young son from years ago. She trades a jade ring she’s hidden for half her life for seven days of freedom, only to fall into the Empress’s deadly trap—her son, stolen away back then, has become the Empress’s “legitimate son” and now stands at the palace gate with a sword, vowing to avenge his “mother” for “being harmed by Su Wanqing.” When the blade pierces her chest, she stares at the face identical to the late Emperor and realizes: those thirty years in the cold palace were never a punishment. They were a trap the Empress set long ago—to make her watch her own son become the knife that kills her…