After a palace coup, the Empress Dowager was forced to leave the palace and flee. To escape her pursuers, she became a bride in a substitute marriage and then a concubine in the Li household. See how the heroine thrives in the inner household, using every trick in the book to make the hero fall hopelessly in love with her. In a life of luxury, what will she choose? Will she and the hero end up together... or will she return to the palace...