Wei Yanwan was reborn in the first year of Qianlong's reign. With the hatred of being poisoned in her previous life and the experience of palace fighting, she vowed to climb to the highest position. She started from the side palace of Chuxiu Palace where she was bullied by Ruyi, and she made progress step by step with amazing vitality and strategy. The former imperial eunuch Jinzhong became her most important ally, and the two gradually developed the unique interdependence and ambiguous feelings in the deep palace from their alliance of interests. She used the power of the Queen Mother and the Empress to defeat Ruyi, Jin Yuyan and other opponents, and was promoted from noble to concubine. She was well aware of Hongli's imperial intention of "eliminating the mother and leaving the son", so she arranged a fake death situation in advance. With Jin Zhong's life-saving help, Jin Chan escaped from her shell and lived in seclusion in Hangzhou. Many years later, her son Yongyan succeeded to the throne, and mother and son recognized each other among the people. She took the glazed lamp left by Jinzhong and Ling Yunzhe's ruby ring to plant Lingxiao flowers by the West Lake, and spent the rest of her life peacefully. The story uses the "Lingxiao flower" as a metaphor, telling the story of a woman born in a wealthy family who grew from grass in the cracks of stones to flowers climbing all over the palace walls, and finally broke away from the Forbidden City and lived her own life.
