Empresses in the Palace

Hi, Julie's here to introduce you this Chinese historical drama Empresses in the Palace.

What's it About?

The background of this drama is set in the first year of Yongzheng Emperor's reign, (Qing Dynasty). In order to balance the power of the royal harem and imperial court, Empress Dowager Renshou prepares an election of all the government officials' daughter for the imperial harem.

Zhen Huan is one of the government official's daughter, she is beautiful and intelligent. At the age of 17, she is innocent, her dream is to find her beloved and stay with him forever. She is selected to join the imperial harem and become the Emperor's concubine, which is against her will. The Emperor loves her extraordinarily at the beginning.

She danced for the Emperor. 

                               

The love from Emperor brings her jealousy and treacheries of the imperial harem. Eventually she finds herself is caught in the conflict with the aggressive Consort Hua . Consort Hua has done many contemptible and cruel things to hurt her and even wants to kill her.

Consort Hua adds poison into Zhen Huan's food; she frames Zhen Huan's best friend--Shen Meizhuang up, says that she is pretending to be pregnant; she drowns her another good friend--Chou Changzai; even when Zhen Huan's pregnant, she punishes Zhen Huan to kneel down...

Many insidious reasons leads the abortion of Zhen Huan.

All the pain that she suffers finally makes her become stronger and she starts to revenge...

In the end, she becomes the new Empress Dowager.

All in All

I really love this drama, I will give it a 5/5. There are 76 episodes and I've watched them all. It's a popular drama, there is an American short version of this drama with 6 episodes and 90 minutes each episode.

Source: Wikipedia

Julie