Let's see who shall have the last laugh at the end of the day.
Will it be the Empress or Concubine Mi?
Will it be Yan Huan or Xiao Rongrong?
In the show, the empress had managed to control Concubine Mi.
In reality, Yan Huan has also left Xiao Rongrong devastated with her acting.
Overpowering one while acting is a skill by itself too. An experienced actress could easily do so to a newbie. However, Xiao Rongrong wasn't a newbie, but she was still suppressed by Yan Huan at the end of the day. Her condition got worse as the filming progressed.
At the end of the day, she had been cut by the director the most and she had delayed the progress of the filming by quite a bit. Director Zheng had lost a lot of hair out of frustration because of this.