The Empress Dowager, who had secluded herself in a Buddhist hall for five years, unexpectedly heard a young child's inner voice at the Mid-Autumn palace banquet, seeing through the imperial son-in-law's conspiracy to replace the Grand Princess's orphan with an illegitimate daughter—the true royal bloodline A Man was demoted to a maidservant, suffering endless grievances in the princess's mansion. The Empress Dowager immediately locked the palace gates to investigate thoroughly, step by step uncovering the various evil deeds of the imperial son-in-law and Lady Liu. After blood-pricking tests for kinship, witness overturns of the case, and evidence retrieval from the bottom of a well, justice was finally served, the villains were brought to justice, and A Man recovered her identity as Princess Mingzhu, raised personally by the Empress Dowager to make up for the delayed intergenerational affection.