Zhu has won an important battle and now seeks to seize the emperor’s throne. She faces competition from Madame Zhang, a courtesan who wants to help her husband take the throne. Zhu decides to risk everything and form an alliance with the eunuch-general Ouyan to destroy her enemies. At the same time, the scholar Wang Baosian is also striving for power and is ready to play dangerous games to achieve his goal. Everyone is willing to take extreme measures to win the throne, but gradually it becomes clear to them that the desire for power can have unpredictable consequences. This is the ending of the epic dilogy about war and fate in an alternative China.