Shangguan Wan'er's Ups and Downs in the Tang Dynasty

She bears the blood feud of her family being wiped out, but she has to help her enemy become the emperor; she is trapped in the whirlpool of the palace, but she breaks away from the shackles of her identity with her pen and ink, transforming from a slave in Yeting to a powerful "inner". In Shangguan Wan'er's writings, she has both the literary spirit of "weighing the world's scholars" and the political wisdom of balancing the forces of all parties; in her life, she has both Wu Zetian's grace of knowing her and her encounters, and the heart-wrenching pain of the humiliation of being tattooed; she has both the pursuit of the pinnacle of power and the struggle against the impermanence of fate. When talent met intrigues, when grudges entangled the imperial power, she blazed a path in the palace that no one could copy. In the end, she used her life as a pen to write down her own legend, leaving it for future generations to comment on her merits and demerits.