Li Qingyan was the only daughter of the Prime Minister of the Zhou Dynasty. She grew up with many pampers since she was a child. The Prime Minister and her mother, the Wei family, loved her very much. However, Li Qingyan was a lively and restless person. She liked to disguise herself as a man and sneak out of the palace with her maid Linlang. One day when she was leaving the palace, she accidentally met the emperor Xiao Jingyuan who was visiting incognito. Xiao Jingyuan recognized her identity but did not reveal her identity.
Unexpectedly, Xiao Jingyuan fell in love with her, but Li Qingyan didn't want to enter the palace. She longed for freedom and didn't want to go to a place with many rules. The Prime Minister and the Wei family didn't want their daughter to enter the palace and compete with many women for the favor of the same man, so they thought of marrying their daughter off. Later, the Prime Minister's family discussed letting Li Qingyan marry Shen Lingyun, the only son of the Zhenguo general. When Xiao Jinyuan found out, they asked Shen Lingyun He went to quell the chaos in another place, made Li Qingyan a noble concubine, and asked her to accompany her to the palace. Li Qingyan did not want to enter the palace, and ran away in men's clothes the night before entering the palace. Her maid Linlang dressed up as her and entered the palace instead. Xiao Jingyuan went to see her after the morning and found that Li Qingyan had escaped. Xiao Jingyuan sent people to find her. He also took Gao Feng and some imperial guards out of the palace to search, and finally Li Qingyan was found.
Xiao Jinyuan brought her into the palace. After entering the palace, Li Qingyan still wanted to escape from Xiao Jingyuan. Later, County Lord Yunping came to Kyoto and knew that the emperor already had a beloved concubine. County Lord Yunping tried every means to get rid of the concubine. Xiao Jinyuan was stabbed by County Lord Yunping to save Li Qingyan. It was also from this time that Li Qingyan's feelings for Xiao Jingyuan changed.
