The heroine, Li Yanyang, is the only daughter of the mighty general who commands three hundred thousand troops. Fearing the power of the Li family, Emperor Liu Qi marries her off to Zhao Yuze, the young marquis of the Zhongyi Marquis’s household. Zhao Yuze is a notorious libertine who spends all his time carousing in brothels. Forced into the marriage, Li Yanyang makes use of the marquis’s household to gradually seize control of the imperial capital’s troops. In the end, she succeeds in her rebellion and becomes empress.
