Third princess or wu ting-mei was a tyrant, she had done so many crimes that it was hard to believe she could ever do anything good. Her crimes even reached the emperor's ear but he continuously ignored it ,that was because ting-mei was his beloved concubine Yuxi's adopted daughter. The emperor had fallen head over heels for concubine Yuxi who was just courtesan even after having Empress Feng Yue as his only betrothed wife by his side, and could no longer take a wife, he still persuaded her to marry him and there for Yuxi couldn't deny the royal degree even if she didn't want the marriage.
But the Empress Feng was cold as ice and was numerous times being taunted of the same line by the emperor "it's a hundred times better to embrace a cold doll made of ice then take you in my arms" but even after further humiliation the empress stayed strong and heartless because the emperor had fallen in love with another women and wanted to stay with her.
But both of them had to follow the orders of the dowager without any denial, and so the bridal chamber was prepared for them. but the emperor still loved another woman, so the empress endured for the scheming woman to be his concubine, who had wrapped him around her fingers and he followed her every step and ordered him to throw out the empress.
so the emperor followed wrongly accused the empress of being infertile and calling him infertile behind his back and after being wronged and accused, she was sent to cold palace where she gave birth to the first princess 'Wu Changle'. Wu Changle was a beauty and a psychic, she could tell the things that were happening from a far, and also was a scholar but had be betrothed to the crown prince of a foreign country. the emperor was wishing her to lay dead as dying corpse but she had happily lived in that foreign land with her husband.
and after the birth of Wu Changle, the empress came to power again and was going to have another child, which was the beloved of the heavens 'wu jiang' she was meant to be a strong figure a like her mother, she was the one which made the empress have higher authority than the emperor himself. and the only one that was infertile was concubine Yuxi who had been involved in having contraceptive drugs as she was a courtesan who had married the emperor and couldn't have a child, and due to her the emperor was not paying attention to any of the matters.
that thus gave the empress with the full power even by the dowager and ruled the empire on her own. but Yuxi could not bear such a thing and thus started to poison the youngest daughter 'wu jiang', however the empress had caught her doing so and punished her to kneel for 3 days in the ancestral hall and to protect wu jiang she had planned to send her to borders for her to learn how to protect the land of her kingdom at the age of ten. it was wrong decision indeed, wu jiang had grown cold to every living being as if she never had any emotion for the past ten years but it was the only right way of making her a strong woman who isn't caught onto by emotions.
however when wu jiang returned to the palace after ten years in the front line, she had grown into a women, whose smile could melt hearts of even women. Handsome men envied her a bit too much for such but when she returned, she saw a small figure, a child but more like a tyrant, wu ting-mei, she was the adopted daughter of courtesan or rather 'concubine' Yuxi, who was said to have married to the 'empress', wu jiang and even the capital shook at such a scene, "Yuxi... why?" wu jiang thought to herself and then thought 'she was a cut-sleeve' even hwan couldn't believe such a thing and also because of that wu ting-mei was a spoiled brat being the only one loved in the palace so she had it all.