Qingyun Is a Prison

Shen Yan, the son of a guilty minister, was taught by his father to be loyal to the emperor and serve the country since he was a child. But on the eve of his conviction and confiscation of his home, his father told him that he should never pursue an official career as people's hearts are evil. He could have been alone, but after discovering his father's hidden secrets and his friends being framed, he resolutely protected the people he wanted to protect. In order to protect his mother, Zhao Yun climbed up from the embroidery girl in the weaving bureau to the palace step by step, and from the most humble embroidery girl to the emperor's favorite concubine. She fought for favor, took sides, and also used the emperor's grace to save her father from prison. But the higher she climbed, the more the Zhao family demanded. The son of a criminal official who refused to be an official. A concubine from a humble family who had to climb to power. Rising to the top is never just about official career. It is also a prison that climbs higher and deeper. "To be an official until the end is to join the game. To join the game is to choose a side. Those who refuse to choose are the outcasts who can be trampled on by anyone in the officialdom." "The most honorable form of power is not to force you to bow your head, but to block all roads and force you to choose this road voluntarily." "If rules can only protect those who master the rules, then if you want to protect the people, you must first become someone who can explain the rules." "If I let you live, you will live; if I let you die, you will die. You think you have the power, but your life or death is only a matter of my thoughts."