In the shimmering Qingshi Town in the south of the Yangtze River, Yun'er, the daughter of the Xie family, and Wu Qi, a young boy from a poor family who lives in the Xie Mansion, are inseparable childhood sweethearts. Yun'er was smart and clever, and was the only warm sun in Wu Qi's barren years; Wu Qi was silent and determined, and only Yun'er understood the vigor and unwillingness hidden between his brows. They made a promise beside the small bridge and flowing water, and shared the smallest joys and sorrows under the ancient locust tree.
The turn of fate began when Wu Qi, bearing family hatred and ambition, decided to go to Beijing to take the exam. When leaving, Yun'er put a deeply affectionate family heirloom into his palm, but the silence was worth a thousand words. Wu Qi relied on his extraordinary talents and iron-blooded skills to make his way step by step in the treacherous court. After experiencing the ups and downs of the officialdom, he finally became an extremely powerful minister and became the iron-blooded prime minister with overwhelming power in the world.
However, it is extremely cold at the top of the blue clouds. When Xie Yun'er was no longer the carefree girl she once was, but stepped into the center of this whirlpool of power with her own tenacity and wisdom, they met again in the richly decorated Prime Minister's Mansion. The childhood sweethearts of the past are now separated by the power gap and the bloody chaos of the court. Under Wu Qi's cold mask, there is a deep longing for Yun'er and a desire to protect her, but he has to drag her into a deeper whirlpool; Yun'er sees clearly the edges and corners of Wu Qi that are soaked in power, and is heartbroken, but he can't let go of the deep love that has long been integrated into his flesh and blood.
When the New Deal storm sweeps across the government and the public, when old friendships are tested by suspicion and betrayal, when Wu Qi's iron fist touches everything Yun'er cherishes... Can the love between these childhood sweethearts be tempered into gold in the furnace of power? Or will it eventually turn into a heavy sigh and embers above the blue clouds? This is a difficult game about original intention, desire for power and true love.
Concept: The shady prime minister and his little wife