In the 15th year of Kang Yong's reign, Liu Qingyuan, the daughter of the royal censor, entered the palace as a concubine of Qiandi and entered the turbulent chess game of the harem. She has no prominent family background to rely on, and only relies on her calligraphy skills and half-life knowledge of herbal medicines to survive step by step amid suspicion and plotting - Concubine Li's filth trap, the cold and poisonous soup during pregnancy, and her father's life-and-death crisis when her father was falsely accused, she all used her forbearance and wisdom to avert dangers.
From giving birth to the eldest son, Hong Yuan, a concubine of the Jin Dynasty, to taking over the sixth palace and being granted the title of imperial concubine, to finally being appointed as a queen, Liu Qingyuan shouldered the order of the harem with her gentle shoulders, and even protected her children and family in the undercurrent of the court. However, the emperor's favor is unpredictable, and her haircut during the southern tour to Hangzhou caused her to fall from the peak to the bottom. She was placed under house arrest in the palace, and the funeral ceremony was simple.
It was not until the new emperor ascended the throne, named Empress Xiaohui, and sorted out her calligraphy and herbal medicine legacy that this legend hidden deep in the palace walls came to light. Her life is the survival epic of a harem woman, and also a tenacious and desolate frost in the chess game of power.
