Succession War

At the Lunar New Year’s Eve in the 3rd year of JIAQING Era, QIANLONG as usual writes calligraphy with words of blessings at the Yangxin Hall and besto...

Feeling perturbed, HESHEN rushes to the palace and learns that QIANLONG coughed up blood; whereas QIANLONG pretends nothing happened, instead, he want...

With PRINCE YONGXUAN purchasing a large amount of firearms and hiding them in his residence in the capital, JIAQING has HESHEN’s son FENGSHEN-YINDE le...

Sensing the uncertainty, HESHEN asks his second wife CHANG MEI to write a letter in English then tells FUCHANG’AN to hand it to the representative of...

JIAQING puts HESHEN and FUCHANG’AN under house arrest at the Qianqing Palace, commanding the two to confess their crimes in public the next morning. F...

JIAQING receives a record book containing the list of court officials who received bribes from HESHEN, so he immediately instructs LIU YONG to get rea...

When JIAQING questions the court officials who received bribes from HESHEN, the record book is switched with another one, above which it’s reported by...

At night, JIAQING visits ROYAL NOBLE CONSORT, who is under house arrest on the conviction of possession of a prohibited drug. He asks her about the ni...

After the plum blossom tree in the palace suddenly withered, word gets around, and rumor has it that the late EMPEROR EMERITUS died of a suspicious de...

PRINCE YONGXUAN asks for an audience with JIAQING and raises his concern regarding QIANLONG’s suspicious death. He then asks for permission to investi...

PRINCE YONGXUAN takes CHANGDONG back to the palace and wants him to reveal the name of the culprit who poisoned QIANLONG, without knowing that CHANGDO...

On his way to bring injured HELIN back to the capital, FUCHANG’AN notices that he is heavily encircled by a large group of people. He later reports to...

Following a clue, JIAQING discovers where HELIN is hiding; whereas HESHEN comes too late, feeling rather perturbed as he can only watch his younger br...

JIAQING orders PRINCE YONGLIN to parade HELIN through the streets, seeking to force HESHEN to save him. Unfortunately, the plan doesn’t work out well,...

FENGSHEN-YINDE reports to JIAQING that HELIN is found dead when he arrives at the jail; whereas JIAQING is furious at this because HESHEN beats him to...

When ROYAL NOBLE CONSORT is holding a memorial service at night, JIAQING suddenly arrives and once again asks her about the Qianqing Palace fire that...

Word gets around after the attempted assassination of JIAQING. In order to show that he is safe, JIAQING urgently summons all the court officials, but...

In the nick of time, JIAQING regains consciousness, managing to avert disaster. Suddenly, ROYAL NOBLE CONSORT bursts in, begging him to go to Shoukang...

HESHEN is arrested; whereas CHANG MEI disappears. HESHEN is then taken to JIAQING, who threatens him with the accessories and jewellery worn by DOUKOU...

HESHEN manages to escape from the palace, but he refuses to leave. Eventually, he finds DOUKOU. After DOUKOU wakes up, LIU QUAN gets down on his knees...

FUCHANG’AN manages to convince CHANG MEI and allows her to make an audience with the Emperor late at night. Running away through the water route, HESH...

Holding tight to FU’EN’s dead body, FENGSHEN-YINDE returns to the palace to make an audience with JIAQING, who also shares his grief. CHANG MEI has a...

JIAQING becomes furious after discovering that HESHEN escaped again; whereas FUCHANG’AN explains that all his subordinates were killed when they tried...

With JIAQING and HESHEN caught in a deadlock at the Canal Trade Gang inner hall, FUCHANG’AN appears. Instantly, both sides try to win him over as rein...

JIAQING calls a secret meeting to discuss countermeasures with three senior court officials, during which LIU YONG suspects that PRINCE MIANNING proba...

HESHEN threatens JIAQING with PRINCE MIANNING’s life, forcing him to give in. In order to save PRINCE MIANNING, NAYANCHENG even risks his own son by m...

HESHEN cremates CHANG MEI’s dead body, following which he brings along DOUKOU to meet a mysterious man. The mysterious man hands him an empty edict, a...

PRINCE YONGLIN finds out that NOBLE CONSORT DOWAGER YING committed suicide and left a note, accusing JIAQING of killing QIANLONG by poisoning him. Fur...