Su Yao, the eldest daughter of the Duke of Zhen, was originally a proud daughter of heaven, but due to her stepmother's scheme, she was used as a family pawn and pushed into the turbulent harem. On the eve of entering the palace, a poisoned jade bracelet revealed the prelude to the conspiracy; in the talent show hall, she first showed her talents with the sentence "people's livelihood is more important than beauty", but she only got a low-end promised position, was thrown into a remote palace, and became a soft persimmon stepped on by all forces.
The harem is a cannibalistic cage: Miss Liu's public humiliation, Shu Fei's clique's secret manipulation, the eunuchs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs' suppression and making things difficult, and even the emperor Xuanyuan Yi who was sleeping with her initially regarded her as nothing more than a pawn to relieve his boredom. But no one expected that this seemingly docile eldest daughter had sharp claws in her bones - she saw through the poisonous plot and rebelled against the general. She used the power of the emperor to remove the informants, and used the wisdom of the market to resolve the shackles of palace regulations. In each confrontation, she accidentally came into contact with the suspicion of her mother's "died of illness" ten years ago.
From the silence of Zhilan Palace to the glory of Yaohua Palace, from being bullied by others to being the empress in charge of Feng Yin, Su Yao steps on the edge of a knife every step of the way: she forms a fragile alliance with the virtuous concubine, but decisively withdraws when the other party loses power; she uses Liu Ruyan's domineering power to eliminate her powerful enemy, and then turns around and makes her conspiracy public; she confronts the queen mother to find out the cause of her mother's death, and does not hesitate to have a rift with the emperor. And that aloof emperor, from the initial temptation and weighing, to angrily killing the provocateurs for her, and putting aside the fight for the throne for her, finally became sincere in this power game.
