Beauty's Rival in Palace
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- Title: 美人心计 / Mei Ren Xin Ji
- Also known as: Schemes of a Beauty
- Genre: Period drama, romance
- Episodes: 40
- Broadcast network: Shanghai TV
- Broadcast period: 2010-Mar-15
- Opening theme song: Luo Hua (落花) by Ruby Lin
- Ending theme song: Jiao Fang Dian (椒房殿) by Mickey He
Synopsis
During the early Western Han Dynasty, the young 杜云溪s mother was drawn into a palace conflict between Lu 皇后 (Dai Chun Rong) and 薄姬夫人 (Bai Shan) which resulted in her mother and 慎儿's parents being killed. When she grew up, she unexpectedly entered the palace with 慎儿 as 家人子. She displayed extraordinary talents with 1 example being when she arranged for Consort Zhou's child to be swapped under the care of 张皇后. Her intellects impressed Lu 太后and she was sent with 莫雪艳;阿丑 (Yang Mi) as her servant- in- waiting to marry 代王 so that both of them could spy on the every moves of 代王 and his mother, 薄姬夫人. 杜云溪 even has to change her name to 窦漪房 and her family background.
In order to help 代王 with his aspirations of being the Emperor, but at the same time not let Lu太后 suspect anything as 慎儿 is in her hands, 1 of the things that she suggested to 代王 is to train his army under the disguise of building his grand ceremonial tomb to cultivate immortal pills for immortality. Some of the officials in 代王's court believed that 窦漪房 is bringing the downfall of the kingdom, pleaded with 代王 to divorce and remove her from the 王后's position. But nonetheless, 代王's love for her did not lessen at all but increase by the day.
Their alliance finally led them to ascend to the throne of the glorious empire, with 刘恒 as 汉文帝, and 窦漪房 as his 皇后. But at the pinnacle of her power, she realised that 慎儿 planned all the ball things that befell her and even seduced 刘恒 and gave birth to a son, 刘武. Furthermore, in a bid to save her son, the crown prince, 刘启, whom 吴王 wanted to kill with a sword as 刘启 had killed 吴王's son and the 世子 of 吴国, 刘, by accident. In order to clear up the misunderstanding with 刘恒, who, in a fit of anger, bedded the willing 慎儿, who got pregnant just once, stop her 2 children from killing 慎儿’s son, and etc, she weaved her womanly tactics and brains to overcome every obstacle, and forged one of the golden ages in China history known as 文景之治. Her name is recorded in history as 西汉 汉文帝's 窦皇后. The love story and romantic romance between an emperor and his empress is one that touched many from the past till present.一个皇帝和皇后的爱情故事从古到今感动了无数的心。 Emperor Wen of Han and his extraordinary empress, Empress Dou's deep and long-lasting love have and shall continue to touch many generations for years to come.汉文帝与窦皇后在这世界上独一无二的爱情会继续延迟下去,让未来的后代都知道他们两个的故事。
Cast
The Women
- Ruby Lin as Dou Yi Fang / Xiang Lian (Dou Yi Fang's mother)
- Lin Miao Ke as young Dou Yi Fang
- Wang Li Kun as Nie Shen Er / Wang Zhi / Ping Hua (Shen Er's mother)
- Jiang Yi Yi as young Nie Shen Er and young Wang Zhi
- Yang Mi as Mo Xue Yuan
- Dai Chun Rong as Empress Dowager Lu
- Bai Shan as Bo Ji
- Myolie Wu as Lu Yu
- Li Sha as Mo Li
- Qi Wei as Princess Guan Tao
- Zhang Xue Ying as young Princess Guan Tao
- Dong Hui as young Zhang Yan
- Lv Jia Rong as Princess Lu Yuan
- Chen Shi Dan as Princess Ping Yang
- Sun Fei Fei as Qing Ning
- Tammy Chen as Li Mei Ren
- Zhou Mu Yin as Zi Ran
- He Miao as Mi Yu
- Tian Zi Tian as Jin Se
- Zhang Meng as Wei Zi Fu
- Gong Mi as Chen A Jiao
- Lin Xing Chen (林星辰) as young Chen A Jiao
- Miao Luo Yi as Mo Yu Xiang
- Wang Jing Luan as Su Wen
- Zhang Xin Xin as Pei Xin
The Men
- Sammul Chan as Liu Heng
- Mickey He as Zhou Ya Fu
- Luo Jin as Liu Ying
- Feng Shao Feng as Liu Zhang
- Gao Hao as Liu Qi
- Ma Rui Hao (马睿灏) as young Liu Qi
- Du Jun Ze as Lu Lu
- Zhang Xiao Chen as Liu Wu
- Mao Zi Jun as Liu Che
- Yan Kuan as Liu Shao Kang
- Frankie Lam as Jin Wang Sun
Others
- Zhang Tong as Shen Bi Jun
- Lee Yiu Ging as Tian Da Ye
- Ge Zi Ming (葛子明) as Tian Guo Chun
- Huang Hai Bing as Nie Feng
- Li Qin Qin as Jin Zhi
- Deng Xi Bin (邓细斌) as Wang Yuan
- Wang He Yu as Liu Xian
Production Credits
- Original writing: Novel Wei Yang, Chen Fu (未央沉浮) by Shun Jian Qing Cheng (瞬间倾城)
- Screenwriter: Yu Zheng
- Producer: Yu Zheng
- Director: Wu Jin Yuan, Liang Xin Quan (梁欣全), Chen Guo Hua (陈国华)
- Cinematographer: Zhang Zhi Wei (张志伟)
- Music: Li Ge (李戈)