When Queen Consort Li Xinyi comes across her husband, the King, cheating with a lowly courtesan, she begs her maid Xiao Hui to write her name in a mysterious parchment which promises to "off" her.
The next day Xiao Hui wakes up to find the King has run away and that his tyrant brother rules over what's known as the New Regime of Han dynasty where everyone is divided into classes. How can poor Xiao Hui bring back Li Xinyi when she is part of the lowest class and when she is the only one who remembers the Queen Consort ever existed?