It is Qian Long's (Marco Ngai) reign. Thanks to his advisor, Ko Sing (Adam Cheng), the land is peaceful. He has many wives, but he is not satisfied. He isn't satisfied because he keeps on sleeping with the same women over and over again. The empress (Joyce Tang) arranges this because she does not want him to sleep with "unworthy" women. Unworthy women, meaning concubines that originated from the lower class. Every night she arranges with her eunuch servant to produce boards with names of women she judges "worthy" of sleeping with the emperor.

One night, Qian Long is sick and tired of sleeping with the same women over and over again. He orders Ko Sing to get him some new women to sleep with, i.e. the concubines he never gets to see. Ko Sing does this, but in the process of doing so, he has to sneak into the room where all the concubines are bathing (He covers his eyes though). There, a palace servant in charge of washing clothes (Tavia Yeung) sees him. She is about to scream when he tells her that if she screams, the reputation of the concubines would be ruined, since there
is a man watching them bathe. They may even be killed to save the king's face. She also realizes that he is a decent person, because if he isn't, he wouldn't be covering his eyes....