In the last years of the Cao Wei Dynasty, there was a sudden thunder in Gaopingling, Sima Yi seized power, and Jia Chong became the core of power as a confidant, laying the seeds for the rise of the Jia family. His daughter, Jia Nanfeng, has been immersed in power and intrigue since she was a child. She married into the Eastern Palace with ruthless wit and scheming, and lived step by step in the court between her foolish husband Sima Zhong and Bo Gui.
Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty died, and Yang Jun, a relative of the Jin Dynasty, took over the power. Jia Nanfeng secretly joined forces with the clan and instigated a rebellion against the imperial army. They massacred the Yang Mansion in the middle of the night and claimed power for the first time. She used her sword to kill two kings, Sima Liang and Sima Wei, and single-handedly frightened the government and the public. However, she also ignited the clan rebellion by deposing and killing the prince Sima Yu.
When Sima Lun came to the city in the name of "revenge", the queen who used to be the most powerful in the world finally drank the poisonous wine due to the betrayal of her cronies and the indifference of the emperor. Her end did not end the chaos of the Western Jin Dynasty - the war between the eight kings became more intense, Hu Qi was spying on the Central Plains, and a chaotic era that overthrew the dynasty was slowly beginning from her withered bones.
From the ruins of Cao Wei to the storms of the Western Jin Dynasty, this novel uses the father and daughter Jia Chong and Jia Nanfeng as a mirror to illuminate the blood and absurdity of the game of power, and also writes the fateful tragedy of a dynasty from its foundation to its collapse.
