They say the demoness in the imperial harem was already carrying on an affair while the late emperor was still alive.
They also say she's hideously ugly, so terrifying that people flee at the sight of her and ghosts go blind when they see her...
She eats, drinks, visits brothels, gambles, smokes, cheats, swindles, lies, and steals. She commits every vice and gives herself over to every kind of lust...
Yet the tenderhearted chancellor Baili Xiu defends her against the people's furious curses, while Mo Shao'an, the richest man under heaven, squanders his entire fortune for her.
When the people are so outraged that they try to force her to surrender her position as empress, the emperor himself steps in to shield her!
And that's not all. A mighty general, a handsome musician, and one male prostitute after another from the Qingyi House all fall at her feet, ready to do her bidding...
The people call her a witch. The men all agree: she's a femme fatale.