After being abandoned, Shen Zhaoning refused to engage in palace fighting after traveling through time, preferring to grow vegetables and raise cats in the cold palace. Emperor Xie Yanci wanted to force her to admit her mistake, but she was shattered by her words, "I don't want your favor, only my freedom." Liu Rushuang used her to cover her plot to restore the country, Nanny Cui secretly delivered a letter in blood, and Yun Yao used dance to convey the message - when the harem began to use silence to fight against power, a revolution more deadly than the fight for favor spread quietly. She didn't fight, but the entire empire began to wonder if they were living in a staged drama.
