Three years ago, Shen Congan, the Minister of Household Affairs, died in prison for "embezzling military pay", and the Shen family collapsed overnight.
Three years later, Shen Weiwan, the daughter of the guilty minister, entered the palace anonymously as a maid, hoping to find clues to her father's unjust case in this cannibal palace.
She curbed her sharpness and pruned flowers in the imperial garden, but due to an unexpected "theft", she was noticed by the mysterious and unpredictable emperor Xiao Che.
He is a young monarch whose throne has not yet been firmly established. His eyes hide his calculations for thousands of miles, and also his loneliness that no one can understand. When they first met, he regarded her as a pawn and watched her struggle in the harem with cold eyes. As they got along, he gradually became attracted to her calmness, tenacity, and persistence in the "truth."
Concubine Shu's difficulties, Jieyu's calculations, and the undercurrent of the former dynasty's forces have all become thorns in her path to investigate the case. She used medical knowledge to protect herself, used wisdom to break the situation, and got closer to the truth step by step, but she didn't know that she had already walked into the emperor's heart.
"Aren't you afraid that if you continue to investigate, you will get burned?" He once ran his fingertips across the files she compiled in the study room late at night, and his tone was unclear.
She raised her eyes, the candlelight reflected in her eyes, and also reflected his shadow: "I am not afraid of fire, I am only afraid that the truth will be covered in dust, and my father will be wronged."
He suddenly smiled and protected her behind him, blocking all open and hidden arrows: "Then I will hold the lamp for you and see who dares to block your way."
The towering red wall has trapped the youth and lives of many women, but it cannot trap a heart that looks toward the light. When the daughter of a guilty minister meets the emperor who protects his shortcomings, is it just a coincidence in a chess game of power, or is it a sincere commitment in a war-torn world?
