In the thirty-first year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang died and Emperor Jianwen succeeded to the throne. A hurricane of power swept through the Ming Dynasty quietly brewing.
In the palace of the Duke of Wei, Xu Huizu died to prove his loyalty. Facing the pressure of Zhu Di's army, he held up the iron ticket to avoid death and sneered: "Prince and grandson of Zhongshan, I would rather die than surrender!" However, his younger brother Xu Zengshou secretly communicated with the King of Yan, risking his life to deliver secret messages, and eventually his blood spattered the Jinchuan gate.
When Zhu Di stepped through the gates of Nanjing, the gears of fate of the Xu sisters began to reverse - the eldest sister, Queen Xu, assisted her husband as a "virtuous wife", but clutched the blood-stained jade seal in the palace; the second daughter, Xu Miaoyun, carried the Taizu's final secret edict and pierced the bones of her bones on the wedding night with the four characters "Lotus Leaf Qingyu".
And the young Xu Qin, the direct grandson of Wei Guogong, whom Zhu Di called the "rebellious son", hid a secret message in the belly of the bronze crane in the Imperial Academy, saved his father from the sword of the Jin Yiwei, and even stirred up the court with his sharp medical skills. When Zhu Di discovered that in the imperial chess game he personally supported, the most deadly move was actually a blood relative...
