Mi Yue was born as the only daughter of a

high ranking minister of the imperial court, during the Ming dinasty.

At the age of five, she entered the palace as a maid in training and grew up inside the imperial palace.

The day of the maid selection....

The registration bureau: Who's next? Mi Yue!

(she steps forward, looking back at her family members and her mother who was crying)

Mi Yue: I am Mi Yue!!!

Matron: Who allowed you to speak???

Mi Yue: I am sorry madam!!!

Matron: You're the daughter of....(widely opening her eyes)....,Mi Zhao Wu!!!

Ok, you can go in! Take your palace pass and follow that lady on the right corner.

Other girls voices:

One: Did you saw that? She's a high ranked official's daughter, no wonder that she passed so easily!!!

Two: Humph...!!! Who cares?? I am more pretty!!! I am going to become the next Empress!!!

Matron: Silence....!!!

After the registration day, the future maids that were selected lived in the East wing of the "Forbidden city".

The girls that were gosshiping behind her back in the first day of their arrival at the palace tried to get close to her but their feelings were full of jealousy.

Dao Yan Yan, the daughter of a magistrate from her father's rival faction and Gao Meng Fan, another girl with high aspirations.

Dao Yan Yan: Hi there! What is your name?

I am Dao Yan Yan, let's be friends from now on!!

Mi Yue: Ok!!!

Gao Meng Fan: Me too, don't forget about me!

Mi Yue: Hummm...!!!

Actually, when you are a child you don't know what will happen in the future, you just want to play for a bit longer with your friends.

(Friends?? What are these???)

These girls grew up together from their early childhood and into an end became respected young ladies in the imperial palace.

Gao Meng Fan was assigned to the imperial kitchen and became the matron there, Dao Yan Yan entered the imperial harem and shortly after this she became the crown prince's concubine and Mi Yue was assigned to the music department.

It seems that at the age of twenty five, Mi Yue was already the next chief of the music bureau. The three young girl's relationship wasn't the same anymore and the feelings got more and more mixed.

They became very distant one of each other, they were no longer carefreely laughing like before. At that moment, their playing ground turned into a battlefield. The winner was the one who was holding the power!

Becoming a well known and respected lady at the palace, brought her the opportunity to meet her future husband, the second prince.

During a banquet on which her department attended, she met the second prince Li Jin. The prince was very impressed by the good quality of the music created by her subordinates and wanted to know the source of the new masterpieces. When he found out that the songs were composed by a lady from the palace, he was very surprised. Mi Yue was a very talents woman, especially at

composing music and writing pomes. Her calligraphy was unmatched in the entire country. One day, Li Jin visited the music bureau and personally met the matron of the department. This was their first encounter and was shortly fallowed by many others.

During their long conversations, they felt in love one with each other and the prince proposed to her. He decided to marry Mi Yue as soon as possible and confer her the title of "the virtuous musician"!

At first, the Emperor rejected his second son's request became she was just a lady at the court but after finding out her background, he allowed him to take Mi Yue as the first wife.

During the last years, her father's power at the palace considerately grew up and the minister Mi Zhao Wu became quite influential in the court. Even though he initially planned to engage the second son with a foreign princess, he gave up this idea because he also wanted to strengthen his internal power by dragging Mi Zhao Wu on his side.

His second son was actually unmarried in comparison with the first son who was surrounded by plenty concubines. One of these women was Mi Yue's childhood friend, Dao Yan Yan. Concubine Dao Yan Yan became jealous on her status as the first wife.

The wedding took place at a short time after its announcement and they started to live happily together in the "Water Lilly residence".

Li Jin and Mi Yue became the perfect couple from the imperial palace in such a short time and they weren't restraining themselves from expressing their love and care toward each other in public.This carefree behaviour of the two lovers attracted the envy of many eyes from the palace, expecially the women.

Three months later after their wedding, the crown prince took the foreign princess as his first wife. This occurrence made Dao Yan Yan very crazy but she couldn't say a word because it was the Emperor's decree.

Inside her mind, she started to blame Mi Yue for ruining the second prince's wedding with the foreign princess. Dao Yan Yan was still hoping to become the first wife and the future Empress. For the moment, she didn't directed her anger toward Mi Yue but it was going to happen in the future.