The evening bell of Yongning Temple woke up a bloody storm that had been brewing for many years in Luoyang City in the Northern Wei Dynasty. The female official Yuan Xi had only been in the palace for six years, and she was reduced from a third-rank female minister to a prisoner in the North Palace. Her adoptive father, Wang Yuanyi of Qinghe, a virtuous king who was once as gentle as jade and praised by both the government and the public, was charged with treason and his blood was spilled all over the province. And she was trapped in the small area of Xuanguang Hall, listening to the drum beats every night and counting the days of imprisonment.
But Beigong can trap her people, but not her heart.
In six years, she transformed from a girl who didn't understand tactics to a strategizing insider. She weaved an invisible net in the abandoned garden, collecting evidence of the imperial court's embezzlement of military pay, collusion with the enemy Rouran, and framing Zhongliang. She cooperated with the hidden line lurking in Tingwei Temple and threw a fatal blow on the court hall. From the bizarre murder case in Yongning Temple, to the bloody edict buried under the plum tree in the Beigong; from the defense plans in Rouran Khan's tent, to the trembling ink pen of the young emperor on the Xianyang Palace - she has endured it for several years, only wishing to exchange it for one day of glory and restoration.
The plum blossoms in Luoyang City bloom again and again. Yuan Xi only hoped that this time, it would no longer be bloody.
Intent: This is a story about a woman who uses her wisdom as a blade and her heart as a shield to avenge her father and rectify her name for justice in the undercurrent of the court.