Shen Yunzhu was once the most dazzling pearl in the capital. His father is a general who has made great achievements in the war, his two brothers are young generals, and his fiancé is Gu Qinghe, the third son of the Gu family who is famous in the capital. But once the situation changed, her father and brother were framed for treason and brutally killed. Gu Qinghe couldn't wait to break off the engagement and marry her archrival Yuan Miaoyun. She was thrown into prison and tortured. Just when she was desperate and about to die, she was rescued from the capital by a mysterious man. From then on, she endured dormancy, married into the royal family, and gradually rose to the position of queen from the daughter of a guilty minister. After her husband Zhao Jingzhao died of poisoning, she served as the queen mother behind the curtain and listened to politics for more than ten years, stabilizing the government with an iron fist. But when her biological son grew up and took charge of the government, and the mother and son gradually became dissatisfied, she finally chose to leave Beijing and live in seclusion in Jiangning. A life of ups and downs, ultimately ending in loneliness.
