At the palace banquet in the second year of Xuanhe's reign, team dancer Shen Zhilan's jade hairpin broke. In full view of everyone, she did not kneel down to plead guilty, but instead spun around and danced - her black hair flying, her dance steps breaking away from the thousand-year etiquette.
This dance derailed her bright future, spiraled into the wet corner of the Department of Mentoring, and also detached a taboo "Tang Music and Dance Picture" in the Sutra Pavilion.
There, she met Gu Yanqing, a luthier who had been marginalized for innovating music systems. He understands her dancing soul, and she understands his musical heart. In the darkness, they join hands and try to resurrect a "soulful dance" in the palace where "the rules are as iron as iron".
From secret societies and torture in the execution hall, to the desperate counterattack of "turning slippage into glory" at the Jinmingchi Banquet, Shen Zhilan has always wanted to break not only the rules of dance steps, but also the invisible shackles that the times have placed on women and artists.
This is an aesthetic rebellion based on one's body, and it is also a classical romance of bosom friends side by side.
Purpose: To explore the individual's pursuit of artistic authenticity and spiritual freedom under strict rules. By resurrecting a lost piece of music and dance from the Tang Dynasty, it shows the "living spirit" in traditional culture and the possibility of women realizing their self-worth and fighting for their right to speak with professionalism and courage in the cracks of history.