A divorcee comes back to her home town to be with family and heal her broken heart. But she gets more than she bargains for when she begins working at a local bed and breakfast that use to be and old plantation where an horrible crime took place.
Two new concubines, Gu Ningqing and Gu Zixian, plunged into despair by their husbands' rebellion, now face a physical examination by Emperor Cao Shengchen. Filled with fear and shame, they can only silently accept their fate and become members of the harem.