In the Dongsheng Dynasty, Xiao Minghuan, the "only" prince under Emperor Xiao Chengqian, was extremely stubborn, but he suddenly showed his talent for governing the country in both the government and the public. No one knows that this "prince" is actually Xiao Mingyu, the "little scoundrel" in the cold palace - the twin concubine with the same appearance as Ming Huan. Ten years ago, Queen Shen poisoned her twin sister (Ming Yu's biological mother) to protect her throne, and threw the "ominous" second son of her newborn twins into the cold palace. Little did she know that these "mirror princes" would become a double-edged sword to overthrow the dynasty.
Mingyu was forced to bear the lessons, punishments and even favors for Minghuan as a "shadow". He was called "the man in the mirror" by the old eunuch in the cold palace. Only the mysterious counselor "Mr. Mingjing" used the bronze mirror as a matchmaker to teach him the art of emperor and the way of revenge. When Mingyu took advantage of the drought to show his talents, and when Minghuan fell into the abyss due to the poisonous fragrance, the queen was shocked to realize that her legitimate son was actually an adopted bastard, and the birthmark of the real eldest son contained the secret "dragon scale pattern" order that could command the Imperial Guard.
In the game of substitutes, the dragon chair in the imperial study became the center of the mirror maze: Ming Yu supervised the country as the "Prince", but when he was bloodbathing the opposition, he found that he was the "living mirror" trained by Mr. Ming Jing; before the emperor died, he was shocked to find that the "legitimate son" who passed the throne was actually an orphan of the previous dynasty; and the Queen did not know it until her death, and Ming Yu, whom she regarded as an "evil breed", had the pure blood of the founding emperor flowing in his veins.
When the hundreds of bronze mirrors on the rooftop of the sacrifice platform reflect the bloody reflection of the Nine-layered Palace, and when the real and fake emperors confront each other with swords at the Meridian Gate, the whole world finally understands: There has never been a real dragon in this dynasty, only countless mirrors reflecting each other - Zhao Jianye
