Yangzhou Kongmeng Pavilion, the locust flowers bloom and fall in late spring.
Ruan Yinlan has been here for six years and is used to seeing all kinds of guests. She thought that she would no longer be tempted by anyone. Until one evening, at the corner of the corridor, a man with red eyes asked her to read three words - "Dugu Wu". That was his name, and that was his fate of being thrown away.
A child picked up from the street, with the name of an enemy general, lived in the palace for more than ten years, working hard to perform meritorious services, kill people, and climb up the ranks. He didn't think about the future, it was too far away. But he carried this name in his arms and carried it with him wherever he went, for fear of forgetting who he was.
The carriage took a long time from Yangzhou to Luoyang. She thought that when she got to the north, she would find a pot and plant the wild orchid, and her life would be able to go on.
Twelve years, from the age of sixteen to twenty-eight, from Kongmeng Pavilion to Qingping Palace. The one she married was not the emperor, but Dugu Wu. But the emperor ate Duguwu year by year.
Only in the end did she realize that if something is broken, it is broken. You spend twelve years trying to mend it, but it is still broken in the end.
Concept: The prison of identity and the search for self. The name given, the destiny assigned, the role expected - when a person spends his whole life playing the identity given by others, what is left of the real "I"?