Xiao Fengyi was once the eldest princess of the Great Qian dynasty. She personally led soldiers to conquer the realm and put her younger brother, Xiao Linyu, on the throne, then retired to the countryside with her daughter, Lin Qianqian. Eighteen years later, after her daughter gets married, she discovers that her perfectly respectable son-in-law, the top imperial graduate Lu Mingyuan, has been ordered by the emperor to marry Su Wanyan, the chancellor’s daughter. And her daughter’s mother-in-law, Wang Suying, even wants to force her daughter to become a concubine? Furious, she takes her daughter and storms back to the capital, vowing to make things right for her and hang that damned emperor up for a beating!