The Evening Clouds over the Phoenix Terrace

Plot Synopsis

Qi Chengyun went to see Hua Fengling privately and begged Hua Fengling to return to the capital to help him counterbalance Empress Dowager Lü of the Western Palace. However, Imperial Concubine Xie, Xie Muyun, misunderstood that the emperor had gone to find his first love and bring her back to be made the empress. Xie Muyun ordered her eunuch Xia Xiazi to forge an imperial edict, imprison and torture Hua Fengling, and finally dragged her through the streets of the market, subjecting her to all kinds of humiliation. Hua Muyu, upon learning that her mother was in distress, angrily led troops straight to the capital, throwing the court situation in the capital into chaos. When everyone was wondering about the root cause of the military unrest, the news spread that the emperor's biological mother was to be beheaded in the market.