Li Wangyou was the late emperor's illegitimate daughter. She was an inconspicuous and transparent person. She had been living happily outside the city since she was born and had never entered the Forty-Nine City.
His Majesty suddenly contracted a serious illness and urgently summoned his compatriot brother to supervise the government and supervise the country. However, the imperial edict was accidentally transmitted to her villa. What was left to her was a yellow imperial edict and a tattered sachet with the words "Follow your heart" written on it.
There are turmoils in the Forty-Nine Cities. After the emperor succeeded to the throne, his vigorous implementation of the New Deal was blocked. His relatives, the Zhang family, dominated the family. All the major families were intertwined and striving for greater benefits for themselves.
The Shen family was wronged and imprisoned. They used the Ministry of Justice's files to fake prisoner robberies. They made wrong decisions to defend the vassal king from rebellion and his identity was suspected. He was opposed by the ministers when he introduced new ideas in martial arts. After his identity was exposed, he was imprisoned...
Li Wangyou established her foothold in the court from Xiaobai step by step. An invisible big hand behind her pushed her forward, giving her unbridled rights and conditions to break the seemingly balanced court structure. It also allowed her to find an emotional partner in Sijiucheng that she couldn't let go of.
It wasn't until His Majesty's funeral, when Li Wangyou and her brother assisted the young prince to ascend the throne, that she suddenly realized that she was a disobedient chess piece. Her and her brother's fate had been predetermined from the moment she entered the Forty-Nine City. The "chess pieces trapped on the chess game" situation in the Forty-Nine City, where power and status were easily accessible, became the source of their struggle and pain. It also made her understand better why her mother had tried her best to escape from the Forty-Nine City. She became more determined to follow her own path and finally lived her own life.
