Wu Zetian in "The Legend of Ming Chongyan" has a special origin. She is a peerless beauty who was trained by Li Chunfeng, the heavenly master of the Tang Dynasty, using the immortal bones of the four great beauties. In order to become the first empress of all time, she used all kinds of tricks and used her junior brother Ming Chongyan many times. Ming Chongyan had an admiration for his senior sister, so he followed her around and allowed her to drive her. The story begins when Empress Wu appoints Ming Chongyan to serve as the county magistrate in Huang'an County. After Ming Chongyan became the county magistrate, he used his powerful magic and intelligence to repeatedly solve strange cases and became famous among the people. However, these strange cases all involve the manipulation of power among the big figures in the palace. The articles are developed in the form of a unit drama, and each article is a relatively independent story of detective intrigue. Unlike conventional novels about ghosts and monsters, which mostly include foxes, fairies, and monsters, the "monsters" in "Legends of Ming Chongyan" are mostly based on rarer legends with new ideas, such as the flying-headed man in "Natural History" and the cat in "The Legend of the Concubine" in "Book of Sui Dynasty" Ghosts, the silver minions in "Sequel to the Silence", the insinuating monsters in "Sou Shen Ji", etc... At the same time, the story also incorporates many interesting historical allusions, such as Wu Daozi secretly learned painting skills, He Zhizhang wrote poems drunkenly, Song Zhiwen stole poems and killed people, etc. In addition, Ming Chongyan's two partners - the thief-catching captain Wu Jiu who is good at slingshots and the young Taoist priest Sima Chengzhen also add a lot to the story. As the plot develops, Ming Chongyan walks towards the court step by step and gets deeply involved in the vortex of power struggle. When he saw clearly what his senior sister was doing and her ambitions, he gradually became no longer willing to serve her. In the end, in a power struggle, he followed the trend and walked away to avoid it.
