Shen Zhaoning was demoted to the cold palace for three years and spent every day hoeing and growing vegetables. No one knew that she was secretly cultivating dead soldiers and weaving a tight network. Pei Yuanjin hid under the vegetable patch, taught her the art of war with his disabled body, and guarded her edge with silence. The female history official Liu Ruyan spread the word secretly, the old maid Su Qiniang controlled the poison invisibly, and the conscience of the guard Xie Changhe finally became the last straw that broke the imperial power. When the border was cut off from food and the palace walls were on fire, the cold palace vegetable garden became the clarion call for the destruction of the country.
