In the first year of Yongzheng's reign, the fierce struggle for the throne ended, and the fourth elder brother Yinzhen succeeded to the throne, with the reign name Yongzheng. At that time, the country was peaceful and the people were peaceful, and the politics were clear. However, under the peaceful appearance, an undercurrent was ready to stir.

In the harem, Concubine Hua and the Queen are fighting against each other, and all forces are entangled in them, which is extremely dangerous.Seventeen-year-old Zhen Huan participated in the draft with her good sisters Shen Meizhuang and An Lingrong. She came with the idea of ​​filling up the numbers, but she was favored by the emperor, and the three of them were selected together.However, due to Concubine Hua's arrogance and pressing closer, Mei Zhuang was wronged, Ling Rong changed her heart, and the innocent Zhen Huan gradually turned into a calculating woman in the harem.The emperor discovered Nian Gengyao's ambition and ordered Zhen's father to cut off the Nian clan. Zhen Huan finally defeated Concubine Hua.However, due to the resemblance between Zhen Huan and her late Queen Chunyuan, the queen designed to use Queen Chunyuan's old clothes to frame Zhen Huan. Her father was also framed and implicated in a literary prison and was imprisoned. After giving birth to her daughter, Zhen Huan became disheartened.Choose to go out of the palace to practice.

Outside the palace, Zhen Huan was taken care of by the Seventeenth Master Yunli. The two loved each other and just waited for the opportunity to fly away.Later, due to misinformation about the death of the Seventeenth Master, Zhen Huan planned to meet the emperor in order to save her own flesh and blood and rescue her seriously ill father. She cruelly broke off her love for the Seventeenth Master, returned to the palace, and fought with the queen again.Later, Zhen Huan gave birth to twins, and her father's unjust case was vindicated. He was re-employed by the emperor, and the Zhen family rose again.Zhen Huan escaped the Queen's frame-up many times and finally overthrew the Queen.But as luck would have it, the emperor discovered the affair between Zhen Huan and Prince Guo, and poisoned Yunli to death. He also suspected the identity of Zhen Huan's child. In order to protect herself, she finally acquiesced in Ye Lanyi's regicide.After the death of the emperor, Zhen Huan's adopted son Hongli ascended the throne, and Zhen Huan was revered as the Holy Mother and Queen Mother. Even though she enjoyed all the glory, looking back on the past, it was just a tragic dream of a feudal dynasty.

In the end, Zhen Huan eliminated all dissidents and became the most authoritative person in the palace.She was finally in control and didn't have to worry about who was going to kill her.

What she was very smart about was that she did not let her son become the emperor, but instead made her fourth elder brother, and she also found an opportunity to adopt her life to the name of Prince Guo.This move saved his son and allowed him to recognize his ancestor.Zhen Huan's big game of chess was played just right.

In the finale, the last scene was of Zhen Huan lying on the bed and sleeping peacefully.After struggling with the harem for half a lifetime, I finally had a moment of relaxation and comfort.Compared with the Queen, Concubine Hua, An Lingrong and others, Zhen Huan is the biggest winner.

Zheng Xiaolong had never filmed a costume drama before directing "Empresses in the Palace". He wanted to make a critical and different Qing Palace drama for the audience. He hoped that the audience could see the darkness of feudal society from this drama., including the misery of people living in feudal society.

《Empresses in the Palace》The script is adapted from the novel of the same name by writer Liu Lianzi《Empresses in the Palace》.The novel began to be serialized online in 2006. It was first published in Jinjiang Literature City and then transferred to Sina Weibo. From February 2007 to September 2009, it was published in seven volumes by three publishing houses.Director Zheng Xiaolong's wife and screenwriter Wang Xiaoping recommended the work to him after reading the novel. Zheng Xiaolong recommended the work to Cao Ping, who later became the chief producer of the TV series. In 2007, he purchased the six-year adaptation rights of the novel. In 2008Adaptation of the novel began in 2006.

The story itself is about the fictional Zhou Dynasty. After adapting it, we chose a %down to earth approach.Screenwriter Liu Lianzi watched "Golden Branches Desire" and felt that although the plot was brilliant, the etiquette was not rigorous enough.She began to write a palace story of her own at home, hoping to take into account all aspects of plot, history and etiquette.The novel took three years of on-and-off writing to complete, and the script took a year and a half to go through, with more than a dozen revisions.In order to bring the fictional Zhou Dynasty to life in the original novel, Liu Lianzi chose the Qing Dynasty, which had the strictest constraints on human nature. The biggest difficulty in the adaptation was to learn to ruthlessly delete many characters and plots in the original work.