The story of an innocent girl who is destined to become one of the emperor´s concubines. Initially she suffers from a loss of innocence and the intrigues of the other concubines but over the course of time she becomes less and less scrupulous and finally is impregnated by the emperor and thus becomes his wife - the empress of China. However, her "career" has corrupted her once innocent soul and so, after the emperor dies she rules the land with terror.
as Hui Yu Lan/Empress Tzu Hsi
as Prince Kung/Yik Shut
as The Queen
as Emperor Hsien Feng
as Lady Li
as Da Niu
as Eunuch Xiao An
as General Su Shun
as General Cai Won
as General Tun Hua
as Yu Lan/Tzu Hsi's mother
as Eunuch Kwok
as Monk
as Prostitute
as Imperial Concubine
