The red walls are towering and the snow falls on the palace corridors. There is no romantic love in Dayong's harem, only the intricate chess game in the court. The palace maid Wan He is at the bottom, not involved in fighting or seeking honor. With the eyes of a bystander, she quietly witnesses the ups and downs of more than a hundred concubines in this cage.
The women who enter the palace do not have their true intentions. They are pawns used by the family to exchange futures and pay off debts. The so-called favor of the emperor is nothing more than a political transaction to weigh the family and control the government and the opposition. The four concubines are fighting in separate courts, the nine concubines are struggling to survive, and the lower-ranking concubines are struggling to survive like ants. The factions in the huge harem are intertwined, and the undercurrent has already eroded every inch of the palace. Secrets of adultery are secretly brewing, conspiracies for heirs are quietly brewing, corruption, frame-ups, witchcraft, and killings are staged one after another, and every life becomes a victim of the power game.
Concubine Yi, who was once very prosperous in the past, relied on a wealthy family and dominated the harem, but she could not escape the emperor's suspicion. The day when the imperial power was stabilized was the day when the family collapsed. After a century, the Shen family was overthrown. She begged the whole family to be killed in front of the palace, which became the most brutal and famous scene in the palace. The feudal king was in rebellion, and his concubines lost power. The once glorious palace residents drank poison to commit suicide, sat there to die, or went mad in prison. The once bustling harem was gradually left in ruins.
The late emperor passed away suddenly, the new emperor thoroughly investigated the old files, and the bloodline scandal that had been buried for many years suddenly broke out. Several illegitimate children hidden in the palace appeared, the shocking truth shocked the government and the public, and the last group of people who hid the secrets also came to an end.
The prosperity is gone and the blood fades. There were once three thousand beauties in the palace, but in the end only the queen and the concubine were left alone. Wan He looked back at what he had seen over the past decades: those who fought for power perished, those who clung to them were destroyed, and those who could not help themselves were all buried as family members. There has never been a winner in this splendid cage. Only those who are indifferent and have no desires and stay out of the chess game can hold on to a slim chance of survival in this floating world.
Intention: The red wall hides the secret of blood, and all the concubines in the palace are turned into dust