It tells the story of Emperor Yuan Zhao of the Great Zhou Dynasty, who was actually a woman. She pretended to be a woman since she was a child and succeeded to the throne. Wang Chong, a powerful official inside, was eyeing her, and Beidi was invading the border outside. She was repeatedly "forced into power" by King Yan Xiao Shuo in the court, but in private she got to know Xiao Shuo as a chivalrous girl "pregnant with good intentions", and gradually fell in love with her. In the assassinations, conspiracies and power games, the two experienced suspicion, side by side, life and death and staying together. Yuan Zhao finally put down the Nanying mutiny, faced thousands of troops on the city tower, revealed her identity as a woman, convinced the crowd with her virtue, and ruled the world with Xiao Shuo, faced foreign enemies and internal worries, and walked the legendary path of the empress.