In the 23rd year of Chenghua, a heavy rainstorm swept through the Forbidden City. The owl kiss in Fengtian Palace was shattered by lightning. In the Qianqing Palace, Ming Xianzong Zhu Jianshen held Wan Zhen'er's body and howled in despair. This woman, who was seventeen years older than the emperor and was nailed to the stigma of "demon concubine" by history books, was slandered throughout her life as a scourge of "special pampering, domineering, and murdering the emperor's heirs", and she endured three hundred years of reviling and slander.
Four hundred years later, Shen Du, a restorer of the Forbidden City's archives, accidentally discovered a roll of moth-eaten tissue paper among a pile of forgotten scraps of paper - that was Wan Zhen'er's autobiography. The opening sentence, "Emperor Xianzong had no children throughout his life. He couldn't have children except for me, but I don't want to have children." This broke the conclusion of all history books and revealed a past event in the palace that had been deliberately buried.
Wan Zhen'er entered the palace at the age of four and went from being a low-level maid to a female official in charge of the crown prince's uterus. She witnessed the catastrophe of the Tumubao Incident and experienced Zhu Jianshen's ups and downs from being deposed as the crown prince, to being in dire straits, to returning to the throne. When everyone else followed him and tried to avoid him, she was the only one who never left her. She single-handedly supported this ignorant child in the turbulent palace, and used her wisdom and ruthlessness to protect him through the darkest four years.
He was His Highness that she tried her best to protect, and she was his obsession that was engraved in his bones. From clinging to each other in the desperate situation of the palace to the life and death dependence when the crown was placed on them, Zhu Jianshen used the power of the emperor to fulfill the promise of "making you his queen" when he was young; Wan Zhen'er stuck to it throughout his life, interpreting the deep love and loyalty that transcended age and status.
