In the late Qing Dynasty, ZHANG (17) an ambitious girl born into a noble family, desperately wants to become as powerful as her father. After Zhang’s father names her male cousin as the next heir to their influential house, Zhang struggles to prove that she is the better successor. Faced with overwhelming odds due to the female oppression of the time, Zhang discovers that sometimes in order to gain power, one must take it.
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