During the Qinglong period of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the deposed concubine Shen Zhixia, who had been relegated to the cold palace for three years because of her father's crimes, was forcibly summoned out because she needed to be a "model of repentance" at the Queen Mother's birthday party. Relying on the acting skills she learned from the shadow puppet troupe when she was a child, she played "Weakness and Repentance" so convincingly that she attracted the attention of Emperor Xiao Jingheng. After that, she took advantage of the "public opinion manipulation" (rumors about palace maids and eunuchs fermented), "personality management" (weak but sober "White Moonlight" image), and "famous scene creation" (precise counterattacks when the queen made things difficult for her, and "empathic performance" when resolving the situation for the emperor) in the palace fights, step by step from the edge of the cold palace to the center of power in the harem. During this period, she defeated the queen's frame-up, solved the concubine's conspiracy, won the approval of the queen mother, and even influenced the political decision-making through her "acting skills". She eventually became the "top figure" in the harem and achieved a "match-matching" love with the emperor.
