Director: Chen Jialin
Actors:, Chen, Bao Guoan
Main plot:
On the autumn night in the fifteenth year of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty, Wu Meiniang was "loved" by Emperor Taizong for the first time. The innocent and romantic girl became a woman overnight, and since then she has suffered the ruthlessness and cruelty of court life and survived several times. After the death of Emperor Taizong (Bao Guoan), Wu Meiniang was forced to become a monk and suffered humiliation. Later, due to pregnancy, he was connected to the palace by Emperor Gaozong, and his identity once again changed from a maid-in-waiting to a talented person and Zhao Yi.
In a series of court struggles, Wu Meiniang strangled her daughter to frame the king and queen, defeated the prime minister Sun Chang Wuji, and finally became the queen. She and Gaozong are interdependent and love-hate relationship. Wu Zetian gradually grasped the real power with her outstanding political ability until she listened to politics. However, as a woman, she was severely attacked by courtiers, husbands and sons.
After the death of Emperor Gaozong, she fought alone, deposed the prince, appointed cruel officials, brutally suppressed, renamed the Tang Dynasty the Wuzhou Empire and became an unprecedented generation of queens. At this time, although Wu Zetian was the king of the world, she was helpless and old, unable to dispel the extreme loneliness and emptiness in her heart, and indulged in debauchery all day long. At the same time, she struggled for the heir to the throne, and finally had to hand over Wu Zhou's world to her son, restoring the Li Dynasty and completing her hard, bizarre, brilliant and painful life.