On the day he was deposed, Shen Zhaoyao tore up the edict in public, took over the imperial army with the late emperor's secret order, and imprisoned the emperor Xiao Huaijin in the imperial study. The once docile queen suddenly became the regent. She borrowed the help of her daughter Shi Cui Yingxue to re-establish the law, and relied on the power of general Huo Yanchen to suppress the border rebellion. Little did she know that Concubine Liu was colluding with foreign tribes to use troops to restore the country. When the truth was peeled back layer by layer, she was shocked to realize that she was just a chess piece carefully laid out by the late emperor, and the real power never lies in the tiger talisman, but in the human heart.
