When Lin Yan, a modern cultural relic restorer and Chinese painter, was restoring an ancient palace painting from the Tang Dynasty, he was caught in a sudden burst of blue light from the painting and transformed into Su Ningwei, a concubine in the Dajing Dynasty's ministerial palace. The original owner was forcibly sent to the palace as a "promise" because she looked exactly like the late emperor's concubine Bai Yueguangchen. However, on the third day after entering the palace, she was framed by the jealous concubine for "disrupting the palace" and was thrown into the "Shattered Jade Pavilion" in a remote palace garden. In the end, she was drunk with poisonous wine and died with hatred.
When Lin Yan took over the body, the poisonous wine had not yet taken effect. She used a silver hairpin to induce vomiting to save herself, relying on her understanding of "reactions between toxins and materials" during the restoration of cultural relics. In order to protect herself, she used modern painting techniques and cultural relic appraisal knowledge as weapons: she used "perspective painting" to draw the hidden compartments of the imperial concubine's private collection of letters, she used "pigment composition analysis" to expose the scam of the "painting curse", and she used "ancient painting restoration techniques" to restore the damaged portrait of Concubine Chen collected by the emperor. Step by step, she walked from the broken jade pavilion to the emperor.
When everyone thought that she was going to use her status as a "substitute" to compete for favor and take revenge on the imperial concubine, Lin Yan reversed course in the final confrontation - her purpose in staying in the harem was never to compete for favor, but to find out the true identity of the original owner: the original owner was not a concubine, but the biological daughter of Concubine Chen who was secretly sent out of the palace. The real murderer who killed Concubine Chen and hunted down the original owner was actually the concubine who had always "sympathized" with her.
