During the Yongzheng period, an undercurrent surged under the red walls of the Forbidden City. One daughter of the Nian family is Hua Fei, favored by the Sixth Palace; the other daughter is the concubine Shiqing, who was pushed into the palace gate by her aunt as a "chess piece". History books have long written about the rise and fall of the Nian family, but she insists on using a furnace of agarwood incense to create her own way of survival within the established trajectory.
Purpose: "The Blue Ashes Will Ever Bright" is set in the harem during the Yongzheng period, focusing on the survival and awakening of a concubine, Nian Shiqing, who used incense as a blade to break the stalemate in her destined destiny. By using the power of incense to compete with the concubine, it writes about the life philosophy of women under the shackles of feudalism with a clear mind to break away from the shackles of identity and bloom individual brilliance. It asks the ultimate proposition of "how chess pieces become chess players" in the torrent of history.