The Nine-Year-Old County Magistrate: Emperor Qianlong, while traveling in disguise, passed through the Shiquan county and met Chen Qinglian by the荷花塘 (Lotus Pond), with whom he fathered a son named Chen Wenjie. Empress Wei, fearing that this child might pose a potential threat to her own son Yongyan's succession to the throne, secretly dispatched the eunuch Xu An to the Chen family to eliminate the boy. Chen Qingyun, realizing the gravity of the situation, sacrificed his own son to save the child. Abbot Liaoran, the Buddhist stand-in for Emperor Qianlong, saved the child from Xu An and secretly brought him back to the Huguo Temple in the capital to be raised, even keeping it a secret from Emperor Qianlong. Thinking her son had been killed, Chen Qinglian turned her love to hatred, left home, learned martial arts, and sought an explanation from Emperor Qianlong. The wife of Chen Qingyun, grieving the loss of her son, drowned herself in the pond and was buried by her husband beside the Lotus Pond... Thus begins the story of the nine-year-old county magistrate.