Shen Zhaotang, the legitimate daughter of Nanliang's conquered country, was forced to go to Beiyan to serve as a hostage. On the way, she was kidnapped by Zhou Huchen, the bandit leader of Taihang Mountain. Unwilling to sit still and wait for death, she used the "useless" skills such as perfumery and etiquette learned in the court to integrate the bandit den, and trained the rough-and-tumble bandits into "ceremonial thieves" who specialized in robbing corrupt officials of their ill-gotten gains. In the process, she used funny tricks to trick the villain and corrupt officials (such as using perfume to make them sneeze to reveal where the money was hidden), and even robbed the emperor's birthday plan. In the end, she forced the emperor to recruit people and let the bandits become "civilian patrols" to achieve a double counterattack of freedom and justice.
