Shen Zhiwan, the daughter of a guilty minister, entered the palace as a guilty slave, but was accidentally placed as an errand in the Shanggong Bureau by a mysterious man. She hid her surname "Shen" and changed her name to Awan, and she worked every step of the way in the palace - not only to find out the truth about her father's "Tongfan rebellion" case, to clear the grievances of the whole family, but also to survive in the turbulent harem.
When she first entered the palace, she encountered the palace maid Chuntao being tortured and killed by Concubine Cui for a piece of cloud brocade, and witnessed the bloodthirst of power. After being transferred to the Queen's Palace with her extraordinary wit, she was involved in the feud between Concubine Cui and the Fu family. She also discovered that the water transport corruption case that her father wanted to expose was actually intertwined with the forces in the harem.
The queen's attention, the emperor's attention, the eunuch's overtures, the secret help of her old friends... She walked in the cracks, using her wits to resolve life and death crises one after another, rising from a maid in the sewing room to a female officer in charge, and then to being favored and concubine. On the seemingly smooth road, every step is on the edge of a knife: Cui Guifei's pressing step by step, the conflict between the harem forces, the bloody spread of the previous party struggle, and even the mysterious man who secretly helped her enter the palace has an unknown purpose.
When Feng Guan joined the party and stood at the top of power, she finally had the evidence to reverse the case, but found that behind the unjust case, there was a conspiracy deeper than she imagined - and she was already the most critical piece in the chess game. Within the red wall, there is never a real winner. Only those who never forget where they came from can hold on to the last trace of their true heart on the jade steps.
Intention: In this seemingly gorgeous environment, they either do anything for power, break through the world for love, or stick to their inner kindness and innocence in helplessness. Through the ups and downs of their fate, it reveals the cruelty and complexity of palace life, as well as the multi-faceted nature of human nature in difficult situations, allowing readers to feel the temptation and corrosion of power, as well as the preciousness and rarity of true love, and triggering thinking about human nature, desire, destiny and other issues.