On the night the Emperor marries the chancellor's daughter, the Empress climbs beneath the old tree at Duanyang Hall and swears she will jump, strike her head, and forget the faithless man who casts off wife and child.
A slip sends her into his arms, and after she wakes in an empty hall she pretends not to know Xie Linmu, calls the exhausted Emperor Dad, then learns he is her Husband and kicks him off the bed.
When Noble Consort Shen arrives with medicine and lychee, palace talk already links the new bride to the Empress who nearly chokes on the pit, so how long can a false loss of memory hold inside Duanyang Hall?
