On the night of the imperial edict, Gu Mingtang, the daughter of a folk genealogist, refused to commit suicide and escaped. She wrote down the name of the current emperor Xiao Jingheng in the Gu family tree and placed it under the name of the missing aunt Gu Hanzhang, using blood as a chess piece to survive. The Qingxi family genealogy was set on fire by a relative. She summoned the married women of the Gu family to go to Beijing with their private genealogy to confront them. Step by step, she uncovered the tampered life experience of the late Queen Mother Gu Hanzhang. She used a folk genealogy to shake up the secrets of imperial power and rectify the names of all women who had been erased from history books.
