- **Cycle of strange stories**: Every time Xiao Yanzi dies, he will go back to the day he first entered the palace, and found that the palace is a giant rules-based strange story:
- "You can't answer the cry outside the window"
- "The third peach tree in the Imperial Garden cannot be touched."
- **Hidden truth**: Qianlong has long been possessed by the fox demon, and the real history requires everyone to break the cycle.
