This book focuses on the strategies in the harem. Everyone wants to be the emperor's woman and the master of the harem. The concubines have scheming ideas, and the maids have even more scheming ideas. Her name is Lin Meier, and her younger sister is Geng Yuer. The two sisters were sent to the palace as maids by their mother when they were thirteen or fourteen years old. Meier specially made a fake scar on her face in order to accompany her mother out of the palace. Everyone thought she was disfigured. Lin Meier once took the blame for her sister Geng Yuer.
Lin Meier accidentally encountered the emperor wearing eunuch clothes in the plum blossom forest in the Royal Garden. Lin Meier mistakenly thought he was a eunuch and became a close friend of Yongzheng. Finally, Yongzheng discovered the fake scar. What Yongzheng never expected was that she had no scar. Lin Meier even discovered that this eunuch was actually the current Emperor Yongzheng. Therefore, she was named Concubine Rong by the emperor and was the only favorite of the queen. However, due to a conspiracy, her child was killed and framed. She was heartbroken and saw through this harem full of intrigues. She decided to leave the palace and go to Puti Temple to become a nun, away from all worldly affairs. And because a fire burned her best sister Lian Xin to death, she realized that all this was Concubine Nian's conspiracy. Everyone thought Concubine Rong was dead.
Three years later, when she returned to the palace under another identity, her younger sister became the most favored concubine of the emperor. Her personality changed drastically. On the surface, she was deeply affectionate as a sister, but she was framed by a conspiracy. In order to take revenge, she returned to the emperor. Faced with various calculations in the harem, she no longer had the fear and escape of the past. In the end, the imperial concubine died of illness, her sister went crazy, and she became the longest-lived Empress Dowager of Chongqing in history.