On her wedding day, her younger sister drugs her and takes her place in the wedding ceremony. The Lu family forces her to become a concubine. She burns her wedding dress and walks away from home. Three years later, she returns as the Empress of the Empire. When they meet again at the palace gates, her despicable former fiancé and younger sister subject her to every kind of humiliation, until a single cry of "Mother!" from the Crown Prince terrifies everyone. At the palace banquet, Lu Ci is sentenced to death, her younger sister is sentenced to death, and her biased parents are exiled to Lingnan. Once an abandoned wife, she now reigns with the majesty of the Empress.