After taking her own life in the Cold Palace, Consort Hua returns to the year she first entered the palace.
This time, she sees through the Emperor's fickleness and puts aside her pride.
She willingly relinquishes her authority over the six palaces and spends her days praying and eating vegetarian meals.
The Fragrance of Joy bestowed by the Emperor? She turns around and offers it before the Buddha.
The Empress's open and covert attacks? She shuts herself away to copy the Heart Sutra.
The concubines fighting for favor and showing off their beauty? She smiles and gives them prayer beads.
On the night Zhen Huan first receives the Emperor's favor, she is busy preparing medicine for Consort Duan.
Then an urgent report arrives at the palace: Nian Gengyao has been falsely accused of treason.
The woman who has knelt before the Buddha for three days and nights suddenly opens her eyes.
She smashes the jade Guanyin she has worshipped every day.
"If I don't show my power, do you really think even a bodhisattva has no temper?"
Good-looking, good-looking, good-looking