She was a humble singer in the Pingyang Hou family. She was blessed by the young emperor because of her song "Guan Ju", and from then on she entered the shocking Weiyang Palace.
The world only knows that Gu changed the fate of the family with the legend of "one person attains enlightenment, chickens and dogs ascend to heaven", but they don't know how she walked on thin ice as the queen for more than ten years, how she stepped from a singer to a mother in the world amid the arrogance of the Jiang family, the coercion of the Empress Dowager Zhou, and the new favorites in the harem.
When she finally took the throne, a bigger storm quietly brewed - the prince Jing Heng was growing up day by day, and the powerful minister Meng Chong used "witchcraft" as a sword to point directly at the East Palace; the emperor was dying, suspicion was getting deeper, and pairs of eyes were staring at the position of the prince.
She walked through blood and fire, holding up her son's imperial crown with a pair of hands that once held a pipa.
When her hair turned gray, she stood in front of Changle Palace and watched her son wearing a dragon robe and being worshiped by hundreds of officials. Behind him was the finally settled world of Dasheng. What she wanted in her life was never power, but to let her children live and stand at the highest level.
The work draws on the experience of Queen Wei Zifu of the Han Dynasty.
