In the deep palace of the Dali Dynasty, Su Ruoyao, the legitimate daughter of Shengping Hou, relied on her unparalleled wisdom and innocent heart to break through the turbulent palace situation and ascend to the throne. On the surface, it is a light comedy about concubines competing for favor. The middle level hides the deadly game of party strife in the previous dynasty, and the bottom level involves a twenty-year-old unsolved case caused by the late emperor's edict. Bronze bells trigger auspicious visions, and chi-patterned jade pendants coincide with the secret of winning the direct heir. From the candy phoenix of the boudoir daughter to the nine-tailed phoenix hairpin of the mother, an epic story that combines the elegance of poetry and painting with bloody intrigue slowly unfolds. The work is based on real history, with a "Russian doll"-style conspiracy as its context, and combines the excitement of polo competition in the Tang Dynasty with the elegance of tea-ordering and fighting poems in the Song Dynasty to compose a legend of the emperor and empress full of contrasts.
