The Gu family was destroyed overnight, and the once scholarly family was reduced to ruins. The girl Gu Zhirong took the family's embroidery secret book and lived among the people, hiding her name. In order to find out the truth, she approached the powerful minister Pei Yunzhao as a weakling. On the surface, she was gentle and well-behaved, but in fact, she secretly controlled the chess game.
The seemingly harmless embroiderer is actually the mastermind behind the palace's intrigues; the cold-hearted and ruthless powerful officials from a humble family are gradually lost between use and emotion.
Surrounding her are not only Shen Ruolan, who covets power, and Xu Qingluan, who is ambitious, but also Qin Yuwei and Du Yingxiang, who are desperate for redemption. Good and evil, love and hate are constantly intertwined in the palace, and everyone is working step by step for their own interests.
The peak of power is ultimately lonely, but the distance between betrayal and redemption, can her faith remain firm?
Intent: In troubled times and machinations, choose to stick to your original intention, face the truth, and use wisdom and perseverance to survive in adversity, not only to save yourself, but also to influence others, thereby revealing the complexity of human nature and the cost of choices where good and evil are intertwined.