[Mutual Devotion] [Two Strong Leads] [Court Intrigue] [Sweet Romance] [Female Disguise] [Crown Princess]
A beautiful, tragic illegitimate son of the Grand Commandant vs. a deceptively sweet, sharp-minded Crown Princess
A new emperor takes the throne, but the ruler is weak and his ministers are powerful. The Crown Princess and a secondary consort are both pregnant, yet the new emperor refuses to make the Crown Princess empress. He declares that whoever gives birth to the eldest prince first will become empress. And so Liu Yu goes from a princess to the eldest prince, and eventually the Crown Prince.
The emperor dotes exclusively on the beautiful Consort Li from Jiangnan. The Empress Dowager has only herself to blame, with a lecherous father, an irritable mother, a troublemaking younger brother, and a broken-hearted daughter.
Liu Yu can't take it anymore. She finds an excuse to flee to Jiangnan, hoping its beauties can mend her broken heart.
She visits pleasure houses to listen to music and takes boat rides along the river. She wants to see what kind of place could produce a delicate beauty like Consort Li. She doesn't find the beauty, but she does find a pretty little wolf who looks seven or eight tenths like her.
He runs, she chases, and he can't escape. So the little wolf gets dragged back to the Eastern Palace.
Years later, the tables have turned. The little wolf has grown into a powerful general commanding a mighty army, while she has been reduced to a disgraced Crown Prince exiled to the mountains. In the midst of the power struggle, the general helps her ascend the throne.
Rumors spread in the capital that General Wei is indifferent to women and has a taste for men. They say he supported the disgraced Crown Prince to control the emperor and rule in his stead.
Then one day, His Majesty suddenly announces in the great hall that she intends to make the general her empress. The court erupts.
Liu Yu: "I have one more thing to tell you all. I am a woman."
The Imperial Guards surround the Golden Hall. Those who learn the emperor is a woman have only two choices: accept it, or die.
