The Emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty was deeply sorry to learn that Liu E, the Empress Dowager Cixi who gave birth to him, was not her biological mother, but her biological mother was Li, the maid of Empress Dowager Cixi. In order to repay the Li family, Zhao Zhen married his beloved daughter Hui Rou (Ren Min) to the Li family's son Wei Li.

Above the imperial court, the ministers of Qingli New Deal waged a tit-for-tat struggle with the old-school dignitaries. Zhao Zhen manages the country like a balance, weighing the forces of all parties and working hard for the country. Huirou has established a deep affection with Huaiji (Bian Cheng), an in-house attendant who accompanied him when he grew up, and rejected Wei Li, who is like-minded and plain. Finally, she clashed with her husband's family and locked the palace door desperately at night, which broke the most stringent rules of the empire and caused great criticism. Sima Guang even wanted to "break his head and remonstrate" in the main hall.

The ethos of "speaking freely" and "supervising the monarch" that Zhao Zhen cared about all his life made him struggle between loving his daughter and maintaining the idea of governing the country. In the end, after a semi-crazy struggle, the princess never succumbed to the fate of "becoming Wei Li's real wife", but she could never meet Huaiji.

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The creation of Qingpingle respects history, the characters respect humanity, and the details respect culture, which conveys historical and cultural knowledge. In the play, Yan Shu sang the lyrics "Little Brother Huanxisha has Swallows in the Curtain" leisurely, which made the audience feel the beauty of the lyrics and called "the original lyrics have been sung"; Fan Zhongyan was demoted to Tonglu County, but he did not suffer from surrender. His casual and open-minded personality leaps to the screen.

There is also Ouyang Xiu, one of the eight outstanding talents in Tang and Song Dynasties. Because of his sharp edge, he failed to win the palace exam and so on. The elegant life of Song Renzong, once a famous minister and celebrity in the Song Dynasty, is still vivid on the screen, and is praised by netizens as "a scene from a book in China".