Shen Zhaolan, the daughter of the prime minister, had her home confiscated because of a fake letter of communication with the enemy, and was exiled three thousand miles south of Lingnan. She did not accept her fate - begging for grain seeds for the prisoners, going to the shipping company to check bad debts, turning a deserted beach into a trading port, and establishing her own world in a desperate situation.
The emperor Xiao Jue, whom she thought had failed her, had actually been secretly paving the way for her. He was bewitched by his enemies, lost his clarity of mind, and indulged in absurdity, but he always remembered to protect her.
Reunited after many years, she recognized the old love in his eyes and saw through the poison in him. She removed the poison for him, hid in the market with him, and worked with her old ministers to regain the country inch by inch from foreign enemies.
On the day when the country changed hands, he asked: "What do you want?" She smiled: "You have already given me what I want - that year when I ransacked my house, you didn't kill me, you cut off their way to harm me."
