The Northern Wei army besieged Liang Jing, the capital of the Southern Liang Kingdom. Princess Ji Qiuyu of Nanliang knew that the country was about to be destroyed and the royal family could not be saved, so she secretly entrusted her eight-year-old half-brother Xiao Yuer to her admirer, the young general Feng Honglie.
Qiuyu entered the palace as a remnant of the enemy country and was looked down upon.
But step by step, she rose from the rank of a maid to the pinnacle of the harem...