Painting Strategies in the Deep Palace: I Decide the World with Pen and Ink takes "painting strategies" as the core setting and tells the legendary story of Shen Zhiwei, the daughter of a criminal minister, who counterattacked from being a painter in the cold palace to becoming a "strategist behind the scenes".
On the surface, Shen Zhiwei is a painter with a humble status in the cold palace, but in fact, he uses the brush as a blade to hide the court affairs, people's livelihood sufferings, and power games in the brush - a "Hanque Picture" hides clues about imperial examination fraud, and a "Water Transport Picture" reveals clues about imperial examination fraud. Solving the family's monopoly on water transportation, the painting "The Banquet of Hundreds of Officials" exposes the collusion of cliques... She uses the wisdom of a woman to maneuver step by step in the power field dominated by men, not only to clear the family's grievances, but also to break the shackles of "women are not allowed to participate in politics".
In the story, she engages in a "battle of wits" with the ruthless emperor Xiao Che: he is a chess player who sees the world as a chessboard, and she is a hermit who can break the chessboard; he uses her talent to consolidate his power, and she uses his power to realize her ambitions. When identity crises, secrets are revealed, and emotional pulls pile up, Shen Zhiwei will finally use "painting strategy" as a sword to draw his own picture of thousands of miles of mountains and rivers in the deep palace.
