Shen Zhishu was once the legitimate daughter of a wealthy family, but she was abandoned by her relatives when she was a child and became a prisoner. She trampled the imperial examination ladder, tore up the old seal of official career, broke into the secret chamber of the forbidden palace as a woman, and rewrote the world's context. When the powerful minister Lu Jinwu was ordered to investigate the "counter-case", he discovered in the ashes of the city that the woman whose death warrant he had personally signed was using blood as ink to redraw the meaning and laws of the Wei Dynasty. He pressed forward step by step, and she fought for her every step of the way. A confrontation about power, gender and faith was quietly staged outside the Jinluan Palace.
