The background of the story is the Northern Wei Dynasty. The poor emperor was drugged by the queen mother and became insane. The poor concubine Jade was poisoned and blinded by the queen mother because she was deeply loved by the emperor. The poor queen mother did all the evil things for her son to ascend the throne and was given poisoned wine by her son. The poor eldest princess was used by her mother to consolidate her son's throne and forced the princess to marry the emperor of Nanliang who was over seventy and lived a miserable life.