The heroine Shen Zhiwei was once the youngest queen of the empire. However, due to her humble background and gentle personality, she was regarded as a "bird occupying a dove's nest" by a powerful family. She was eventually deposed by Emperor Xiao Che on the grounds of "childlessness and jealousy" and was imprisoned in the cold palace. Three years later, the empire faced a financial crisis and constraints from the old nobility. In order to implement the New Deal, Xiao Che actually "invited" Shen Zhiwei out of the cold palace and named her the "Head of the Shangyi Bureau", intending to use her familiarity with the palace operations but no one to rely on her to serve as a sword for reform. Shen Zhiwei accepted it calmly. Starting from managing the palace accounts, reforming the palace monthly routine, and establishing the palace "Women's Craft Workshop", with her amazing business acumen and delicate insight into people's hearts, she transformed the cold power field into a stage for her to weave connections, accumulate capital, and win people's hearts. She does not want to regain her post, but to establish a new order that belongs to "people" rather than "family" on this golden bird platform that symbolizes supreme power, and prove to the man who once despised her: worth is never defined by birth and favor. While using and observing, Xiao Che was gradually attracted to the reborn, calm and wise Shen Zhiwei. However, the past injuries and the real power game made the relationship between the two full of tension. In the end, Shen Zhiwei made immortal contributions in defeating the conspiracy of the old aristocrats and resolving the empire's crisis. She held the "new palace economy" and the people's hearts that could shake the country. Faced with Xiao Che's remorse and sue for peace, she made a choice that shocked everyone: she did not want the phoenix crown, but only the Jinque Tower, which she had transformed with her own hands, symbolizing independence and creation, and be the hostess forever.
