Yang Zhan, the general of the Zhenguo, has a heart for the common people of the world, but he is jealous of the emperor and is sent to the deserted Tianlao to be a prison chief to fend for himself. He discovers a mysterious mad woman in the secret room of the Tianlao, and their fates are closely linked from then on. The treacherous fluctuations in the court and the rivers and lakes, the choices between friendship and family, and a magnificent and great picture unfolded from then on.