Body and gradually approach the core of power. Her original goals were only revenge and survival, using the harem fight as a cover and ladder. In the process, she attracted the attention of the young emperor Xiao Che. On the surface, Xiao Che is a somewhat mediocre and conservative king who is controlled by the Queen Mother and the courtiers, but in fact, he has a strategy and secretly plans to regain the imperial power. He saw through Shen Zhiyi's unusualness, but was gradually attracted by her vulnerability beneath her tenacity and her calculating sincerity. The two began to test and exploit each other, and then gradually developed true feelings while experiencing crises together (such as the harem poisoning case, the battle for the reserve caused by the border war in the previous dynasty, and the forced marriage between the Queen Mother and the aristocratic family). However, Shen Zhiyi's path of revenge gradually intersected and even conflicted with the emperor's path of centralization of power. Behind the unjust case, the secrets of the late emperor and the mother family of the current queen mother were actually involved. Shen Zhiyi must make a choice between "revenge" and "protecting the people he loves and the country." In the end, the two worked together to reveal the truth, punish the real culprits, and pacify the former harem. Shen Zhiyi used his new identity to work side by side with the emperor and jointly created the prosperous Qingming era.
