Gu Shuyue is forced by her husband, Mu Yunzhang, to enter the palace and take the blame, then is divorced. However, thanks to her childhood achievement of saving the emperor, she is made a noble consort and eventually becomes empress. Using the wisdom of ancient times, she crushes the Mu household with an overwhelming advantage. Bai Wanying's modern knowledge backfires on her: her plagiarism of poetry is exposed, and her fake medicine causes deaths. The Mu family is ruined, and Mu Yunzhang is reduced to a commoner. In their desperate predicament, the two turn against each other, and Mu Yunzhang ultimately dies in regret outside the palace walls. Bai Wanying descends into complete madness, imagining that the emperor made her a consort because of her 'modern ideas.' She races to the palace gates, shouting and threatening to expose secrets.