She is Huo Yunqing, a soul who fell into the Western Han Dynasty from a thousand years later and became the wildest girl in the Pingyang Marquis Mansion. She can draw a bow and make plans. She was childhood sweethearts with the young general Huo Qubing. She watched him bend his bow to shoot down Shan Yu's flag, and she also accompanied him in Chang'an. She drank liquor secretly on the street; she met Zhang Qian's son Zhang Meng, and the dried fruits from the Western Regions he handed always had the warmth of the sun; but she could not escape the eyes of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty - because the pear dimple on her left cheek was very much like the white moonlight of his early death.
From a counselor disguised as a man to a "shadow" forced into the palace, she stands at a turning point in history: on one side is the passionate alliance between childhood sweethearts, on the other side is the silent guardianship of a gentle young man, and on the other side is the paranoid control of the emperor.
She tried to correct the trajectory of history, but in the end she had to set up a situation for herself and her sweetheart to escape from the shell of the golden cicada in the whirlpool of power...