During the Yongchang period, Lan Jiuling, a drunken flower actress, knelt on the snow outside the gate of Zhen Guo Gong's Mansion to recognize her kin, holding half of the mutton-fat jade and an ivory phoenix-neck pipa left by her mother Ge Qingru. When the song "Snow Embracing Lan Pass" was played, she was recognized by the old lady and changed her name to Li Hengwu.
Heng Wu stepped into the power whirlpool of Chang'an City as the "Daughter of the Duke's Mansion". She met Wei Xingqian, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, a young official who had been pursuing old cases alone for nearly ten years.
"You want identity, I want the truth, we are on the same page."
Heng Wu used the pipa as a weapon and walked on the blade of intrigue. She used music to break the situation and music theory to make decisions. She walked out of the boudoir and was awarded the title of Shangyi. However, she learned that she was not the flesh and blood of the Duke of Zhen. She was the posthumous daughter of Lan Tingyu who died unjustly sixteen years ago. My biological father wrote a poem for "Snow Embracing Lan Pass": It is good to bring the snow from heaven to earth and embrace it into Lan Pass, which is also a portrayal of the character of a scholar-bureaucrat.
The real daughter Li Yuzhu appeared, her identity was revealed, and she was imprisoned for deceiving the emperor. When she thought her biggest enemy was Duke Zhen, he died fighting at the border. Her elder sister put on a wedding dress for her and married away to Beidi, spending her whole life in exchange for her father's coffin and returning home.
And when she and Wei Xingqian were poisoned at the same time while tracing the truth, they discovered that they were chess pieces controlled by the same hand from the beginning——
That hand came from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, from the bottom of the court that was deeper and darker than Zhen Guogong. There is only one antidote, and only one of two people can survive. She left him the antidote, knowing that overturning the verdict was just the beginning, and the person who wrote the rules was still sitting in the same chair.
Rules are not defined by good or evil, but by the will of the strong. What she wants is for the entire city of Chang'an to be played by her.
