Shen Zhixia, the concubine of the Prime Minister's Palace, was arranged by her aunt, Wang, to marry into the palace as a substitute for her sister Xiao Wanning (who married into the royal family as a concubine) and was unwilling to consolidate the family's power. After entering the palace, she encountered many frame-ups by her eldest sister (poisoning, frame-up, and miscarriage blaming). She resolved the crises one by one by relying on the forbearance she had developed in the woodshed since she was a child and the medical skills taught by her mother's old servants. During this period, she gained the emperor's attention through incidents such as "rescuing Emperor Xiao Jingheng" and "revealing the concubine's false pregnancy", and was promoted to concubine. Then, she found out the truth about the death of her biological mother (Su Mei, the daughter of the guilty minister) who was framed by the Wang family. She used the power game between the court and the harem to defeat her eldest sister and the group of relatives behind her, and finally ascended to the throne, becoming a "not easy to mess with" queen who was feared by the emperor and respected by the harem.
