The Wisteria of the Forbidden Court

In the imperial palace of an imaginary Southern Dynasty, Zhuang Nongmei, the daughter of a disgraced minister, becomes a palace laundry maid. All she wants is to save enough money to buy her freedom and clear her father's name. Wanshou San, the eunuch in charge of the Inner Palace Service, carries a secret debt of gratitude from the past. All he wants is to protect the young child of an old friend and leave the palace in peace. Their paths cross when ink spills during their first encounter. Palace intrigue and a powerful minister's machinations follow. He shields her from punishment in the snow and risks being accused of treason for her; she gives him a token that could save his life and lets go of her obsession with clearing her father's name. The wisteria blooming and fading in the western corridor of the imperial garden conceals their restrained feelings for each other, while a pact made between life and death, inside and outside the prison, binds them in mutual redemption. When power and love collide, can they break free of the shackles of being a eunuch and a palace maid and, under the guise of faking their deaths, find a humble life together in the water towns of Jiangnan?