Shen Jinru, the daughter of the guilty minister, was brought into the palace by Emperor Xie Changlin because she resembled the late Yuan Dynasty Queen Lin Qiwu.
He gave her the name "Wanfei", traced her profile every night, and called another woman's maiden name. She tried her best to learn the preferences of Empress Yuan, playing the piano she didn't like to listen to, making snacks she didn't like to eat, and practicing how to become a perfect shadow in front of the mirror. She thought this was atonement, the price for the family's innocence.
Until the evidence of the family's innocence was placed in front of him, he burned the files with his own hands to protect the reputation of the family after Yuan Dynasty. The firelight reflected his cold face and burned away the last trace of her fantasy.
On the night of the palace change, she took off her palace clothes and put on a bright red wedding dress - that was what the Shen family's daughter should have looked like, not someone else's substitute. Standing on the high palace wall, she took one last look at the cage that had trapped her all her life, and then like a bird with broken wings, she jumped down decisively.
At that moment, Xie Changlin was shocked to realize that at some point, the way he looked at her was no longer looking at a shadow. But the hand he stretched out only had time to grasp a blood-stained corner of his clothes.
For the rest of his life, every sigh in the long night became a torture that he couldn't quit. The hibiscus flowers blooming under the palace wall every year bloom in the morning and fall in the evening. No one knows that that year, a woman took back her name in the most brutal way.
This is a story about doubles, lies and belated awakening. When deep love and deep hatred arise from the same root, when truth and regret come too late together, who is trapped by that palace wall that separates life and death from true heart?
