introduction: During the reign of Emperor Zhongzong of Tang, a wrongly accused woman named Jing Yuer was sent to the palace as a palace maid. She spent her days dealing with corpses and was nicknamed "Monster" by the people in the palace. One day, she secretly hid a palace maid who had committed a capital offense among the dead bodies and escaped from the palace, only to be caught by Pei Tan, the then-Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. This marked the beginning of their complicated relationship...