What's it like to be born as Hua Fei's daughter?
Aixinjueluo Mingzhu says: Thanks for asking. I'm in Yikun Palace, just learned to talk, and already know how the story ends for everyone.
Even worse, whenever her mother, Nian Shilan, touches her, she can hear Mingzhu's thoughts.
“Don't wear that contraceptive sachet. It contains musk!”
“Aunt Cao will betray you someday, Mother...”
“Uncle has become too powerful and is a threat to the emperor. The emperor will have him executed!”
Hua Fei: ...My daughter might actually be a goddess.
From then on, the original plot is transformed beyond recognition by the mother and daughter. Outside, Hua Fei remains the Noble Consort Nian who punishes people with the Scarlet Red. Behind closed palace doors, however, she is a completely doting mother. Nian Gengyao, an arrogant powerbroker who once looked down his nose at everyone, is gradually turned by his niece's inner thoughts into a humble, modest, model citizen of the Great Qing. Even the fourth prince, ignored by everyone in the Yuanming Garden, is pulled by the mother and daughter onto the path to claiming the throne.
While the empress is still plotting how to bring down Hua Fei, Hua Fei is already holding her daughter and listening to her thoughts, learning everyone's secrets. As the original ending draws closer, Mingzhu knows this much: she will save the Nian family, and she will fight to secure the position of empress dowager for her mother.
This is a story of mutual salvation. A mother protects her daughter as she grows up, and a daughter rescues her mother from the abyss. Those destined to perish in the original story will all survive this time.
From now on, the deep palace will no longer be a prison that confines them, but the warmest corridor the mother and daughter walk together.
