Asian Drama

In November 1937, Shanghai fell into the hands of the Japanese army led by Wei Da Hong and Lin Qiu Yan.

The underground party organization moved to underground work. In 1941, the Japanese army launched a top-secret "Popular Beauty Plan" in Shanghai, with the intention of using "counterfeit banknotes" to disrupt China's financial market and taking the opportunity to plunder China's precious cultural relics. The party's action group, headed by Wei Da Hong and Lin Qiu Yan, secretly acted, and on the way, met Tang Twenty-three, a fat man, a skinny monkey, and other young people.

When Zhao Zhen discovers his biological mother is not the Empress Dowager Liu E, but her maid Li Lanhui, he arranges a marriage between his beloved daughter Princess Fukang and the Li family’s son Li Wei as compensation for his lack of filial piety. In the political arena, Zhao Zhen strives to maintain a balance of power between the conservative and progressive factions after the Qingli reforms experiences a significant backlash from the former.

Inside the palace, Emperor Renzong faces the dutiful Empress Cao, the troublesome Zhang Mihan, and the gentle Lady Miao.