Hong Xiu grew up among ordinary people. She loves the bustle of everyday life and yearns for freedom and equality. While searching for one of her father's old friends, she happens upon three princes: Six, Seven, and Eight. They form a bond, but also make an enemy of one another...
Through a twist of fate, Hong Xiu is chosen to enter the palace and becomes the Dowager Consort's maid.
True to her original ideals, she cannot fit in with the rules of the court. Amid shifting fortunes, cruel tenderness, and splendor fading into desolation, can she still raise her cup and sing?
The greatest challenge people face is the mismatch between ideals and reality. One who longs for the mountains and forests is confined to the palace; those who vow to support each other through thick and thin can only forget one another in the world beyond; and those bound together in life and death, can they hold hands and grow old together...
