Zhu Miaomiao, the Grand General of Conquering the North, led her army to pacify the northern frontier and returned in triumphant return to the estate carrying a longing for her daughter Qiyue, only to notice something unusual at the estate's gate: Qiyue, who came to acknowledge kinship (actually Cuicui, the daughter of Zhu Xianglan), although wearing the shimmering brocade garment she had sewn for Qiyue and wearing familiar hairpins, aroused her suspicions. Entering the estate, Zhu Miaomiao accidentally overheard the conspiracy of her husband Xiao Beichen and her concubine-born sister Zhu Xianglan outside the window, learning that the two had long colluded, not only swapping Qiyue with Cuicui, but also disfiguring and breaking the hands of her biological daughter Qiyue, sending her to the imperial estate to be a horse slave, and coveting her military exploits and the general's estate property.