In the third year of Jinghe's reign, the foundation of the new emperor Xiao Heng was not stable. His maternal concubine Gu controlled the military power and the harem. Prime Minister Gu Yanzhi led a group of civil servants to evade imperial power. The chief minister of rites had been vacant for many years.
Shen Weiwan, the legitimate daughter of a Jiangnan weaver, was executed because her family was involved in a water transportation corruption case. She escaped from death and became the lowest-level palace maid in coats. She worked hard every step of the way, and eventually broke the ancestral system and became the first female chief of ceremonies in Dajing. She cleared the grievances of her family, and she and the young emperor Xiao Heng went from testing each other to becoming each other's armor, and worked together to calm down the turbulent court situation, and embarked on an unworldly legend of an emperor and empress.
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