Princess Yuening of Zhaohua, who lives in a "cage", falls in love with Tian Jingxing, an upright scholar living in the world, in pursuit of freedom. However, she is involved in the whirlpool of power struggles in the court. From their initial romantic encounter, the two gradually grew into political allies fighting side by side. In the chess game between the two great players, the powerful Prime Minister Wei Zheng and the strategizing Emperor Xuande, they struggled to survive and tried to change the direction of the chess game.
