There were three women lived with Pu Yi, the last emperor of China, during 1922 and 1924. Wan-jung, the Queen, ended up with being insane. Tan Yuling died. Wenxiu, a concubine, was eliminated from the Royal family. This is the story of the fate of three women, including the wife and cousin of who have a lesbian relationship

故事发生在20世纪四十年代的长白山林区。伐木工魏大山（宁才 饰）为救他人自己被树砸成瘫痪，贪困的家境很快捉襟见肘，无奈的大山求助徒弟黑塔（赵军 饰），想以当地“拉帮套”的风俗回报单身的黑塔，说白了就是让妻子赔他睡觉以物相抵。善良的黑塔愿帮师傅求医讨药，却不愿做这种龌龊之事。黑塔的忠厚侠义感动了魏妻云凤（蒋雯丽 饰），她爱上了这个忠厚的男人。常年的卧床不起，使魏大山男人的自尊大受打击，他的心理开始扭曲，不断虐待云凤，有次被黑塔撞见，狠狠地教训了他。这时云凤怀上了黑塔的孩子，不久生下女儿参花。一晃七年过去，七岁的参花（马思纯 饰）用爬犁拉着魏下山泡温泉，这招竟让瘫痪多年的大山重新站了起来，但他与云凤的情感已经枯竭了......

西汉年间，巍巍王朝正一步步走向衰落。出身贫寒的小姐妹赵飞燕（赵明明 饰）和赵合德（袁立 饰）辗转来到长安投靠亲戚，却受尽了人间冷暖，羞辱欺凌。好在姐妹俩天生丽质，借此成为了某公主的歌舞伎。天资聪颖加上绝美容貌让她们得到宠幸，此后飞燕更在汉成帝（张铁林 饰）弄臣张放的引荐下进入宫中。飞燕专宠之余，让合德也进入宫来，姐妹俩同时得到皇帝的欢欣和宠幸。然而皇宫的生活充满凶险，许皇后嫉恨之余巫蛊诅咒姐妹俩，而姐妹俩也渐渐丧失当初的纯真与善良，试图除掉班婕妤（李建群 饰）在内的每一个竞争者，更因为始终不能生育，而不惜相继杀害皇帝和其他宫女所生下的龙子龙孙。
一代美女的传奇，同时也是她们令人唏嘘叹惋的悲剧……

In the spring and summer of 1949, the People's Liberation Army launched an offensive under the orders of Mao Zedong and Zhu De, they crossed the Yangtze River and Nanjing was liberated on April 23 which signaled the fall of the KMT regime, Chiang Kai-Shek fled to Taiwan; on October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong standing on the rostrum of Tiananmen, solemnly declared the foundation of the People's Republic of China.