During the Bon Festival in the 23rd year of Jianing, on the night of the banquet at the Jade Mirror Terrace in Qifeng Mountain, Xiao Yushu, the first daughter-in-law, dressed in a special luminous dance dress, went on stage to dance. In front of everyone's attention, she slipped and fell into the Bitan, hitting a stone and dying.
A sealed villa, five noble ladies with different life experiences, and a seemingly unexpected murder case unfolded layers of Rashomon-style testimony games.
The orphan princess Shen Yunheng hid in the palace, carrying the unjust case of her father Zhenbei Hou's entire army six years ago, and took advantage of the Jade Mirror Terrace to plan the murder case step by step. She uses the cowardly daughter of the dye house Lin Ruozhao, the forbearing Zhou Youheng who bears a blood feud, the fierce and righteous daughter of the general Su Yinshuang, and the cold-eyed daughter of the imperial master Zhao Qingci to use a boudoir murder case to leverage the powerful chief minister Xiao Yong.
Everyone is a pawn in the chess game, and they are all players in the chess game. When an old border case that had been sealed for six years came to light, Shen Yunheng realized clearly that he was also being used by the prince. When her great revenge was avenged, she gave up the position of princess that was within easy reach, escaped from the prison of the palace, put down her shackles in the streets of Jiangnan, broke the bronze mirror in the name of fame and fortune, and lived her true self.
Intent: In the palace of mirrors of power, how much of oneself must one hide in order to regain one's true self?