Ye Mingying was originally a daughter of a wealthy family. As her family declined, she bitterly saved up silver to buy back her freedom, only to be waylaid, plundered, and disfigured by Imperial Concubine Rong Zhaoyue out of jealousy. Reborn to the day before her redemption, she sets a trap to lure the disguised, thieving Rong Zhaoyue, swaps tokens, and thereby gathers her own ransom money. Entering the palace through dance, she takes her revenge step-by-step deep within the inner court, and secretly contacts the Prince of Xian in the Northwest to raise troops and seize power. Once successful, she implores the new emperor to disband the Wanhua House and save a multitude of impoverished women, receiving the imperial appointment of a first-rank noble lady, as she gallops in red robes into the vast world.