Modern-day top antique restorer Shen Fengming transmigrates to the Great Yu Dynasty after an accident while restoring an ancient painting, becoming the legitimate daughter of Shen Wenyuan, the dynasty’s chief minister.
After the Shen family is falsely accused of treason and sentenced to execution, she alone is abandoned in a corner of the imperial prison, where she has managed to survive until now.
When Shen Fengming wakes, all she has is a damaged ancient painting: the very same Painting of the Phoenix Crying in the Nine Heavens, the last work she restored before transmigrating.
The painting conceals the true story behind the Shen family’s treason case, as well as the whereabouts of the lost Imperial Seal of the previous dynasty.
She only wanted to uncover the truth and clear her father’s name, but step by step, she is drawn into the heart of the court’s political turmoil.
Women are forbidden from holding office? As a commoner, she offers one brilliant strategy after another, and the emperor promotes her in an unprecedented appointment.
Daughter of a disgraced official? With her skill in restoring ancient paintings, she brings the previous dynasty’s classics back to life and rebuilds the imperial library.
Others accuse her of colluding with a prince? She rides alone into the northwest and persuades a prince and his hundred thousand cavalry to surrender with just a carriage and a painting.
From a condemned prisoner in the imperial jail to the dynasty’s first female chancellor, from a disgraced official’s daughter to the revered “Lord Shen” beloved by the people...
She wields power over the realm.
She is clever and composed.
