Musical prostitute Shen Qingtang was forced to remain anonymous due to a family murder. She made a living as a "thousand-faced opera troupe" in Kyoto's first theater troupe "Yunge Pavilion". However, during a performance as a scapegoat, she was accidentally bound to the enemy's proton Xiao Chengyu. He used "listening to the opera" as a guide to uncover her old scars of revenge step by step; she used "opera" as a blade to secretly explore the truth about the murder of her family. When the two fell from "games off-screen" to "sincerity on-screen", they discovered that the hatred and family and country they each carried had already locked each other into a fatal fate: he was the legacy of her enemy's clan, and she was the obstacle to his return to the country. Sadomasochism surges in the whirlpool of power and intrigue, and the highlight is hidden in the battle of wits that "uses drama to break the situation": she uses drama to pass secret messages, uses costumes to hide evidence, and uses drama to set up the middle game; he uses the posture of proton to counter-attack political opponents, uses her weakness as a bargaining chip, and uses his heart as the cruelest knife. In the end, when the truth about the annihilation of the family and the proton conspiracy were revealed at the same time, the two people performed a life-long separation of love and hatred on the stage.
