Queen Shen Jiao of Dayan has been married to Emperor Chu Mingxuan for ten years. Everyone in the world thought that the emperor and empress were deeply in love, but they didn't know that her existence was just a shadow - the stand-in for the emperor's beloved late sister Shen Qing. After ten years of forbearance and ten years of acting, she secretly cultivated her power and worked step by step, just waiting for the emperor to be dethroned and stand on her own feet. However, when she finally came to the city, the aloof emperor smiled and said to her: "You finally look like her."
Is this sentence an endorsement, or is it a greater irony? When the substitute is no longer willing to be a shadow, and when power is in hand, who is the real winner in the ten-year grudge between her and him?
