During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, Peng Huai, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, sent his only daughter Peng Yu to the palace to be drafted in order to preserve the family. Peng Yuben and his childhood sweetheart Lin Yan, a student from a poor family, had a private life, but were forced to enter the palace and become the concubine of Emperor Jiajing. In the deep palace, she unexpectedly won the emperor's favor with her intelligence and indifferent heart, but she became the center of the whirlpool of the harem battle. Peng Yu struggles between power, family and old love, walking on thin ice every step of the way. When she finally had the chance to escape from the palace wall and go away with Lin Yan, she found that her father Peng Huai was involved in a huge change in the court, and the whole family's life was hanging by a thread. Peng Yu must make a choice between love and family affection, and no matter which one he chooses, it will be a wound in his heart that will never heal.
