The Legend of Consort Wei

[Adapted from real history, this story follows the dramatic and extraordinary life of Pan Wailian, an imperial consort of the Northern Wei dynasty.]

A massacre wipes out her family, and for seven years she endures a life of hardship. Carrying the mystery of her own origins, she is drawn into the power struggles of a marquis’s household, bringing with her one mystery after another: a ruthless principal wife, a beautiful and vicious legitimate elder sister, a Qi prince forced to wander from place to place, a cold-blooded and bloodthirsty prince with a hundred faces, and a handsome, enigmatic emperor who conceals his true feelings...

Amid the shifting schemes of palace intrigue, she is a princess whose own mother tried to kill her twice, the favorite consort of Emperor Xiaoming, and the mother of the first female emperor in history. With a turn of her hand, she can summon clouds and rain, plotting for control of the realm. Can she ultimately change her fate, though she is destined to die?