In the prologue, the Flower Goddess is in the last breaths of her life. In her last breath, she gives birth to a daughter, Jin Mi. She asks her subordinates, the Twenty Four Flower Leaders, to keep the birth of her daughter a secret - from now on, there will be no more Flower Goddess and the Twenty Four Flower Leaders will take turns to manage the seasons and the flowers. She senses that her daughter will face a love trial in the first ten thousand years of her life so she asks the leaders to keep her daughter within Shui Jing (water boundary) and never to leave the flower world. She just wants her daughter to lead a simple free life - without being trapped by love, unlike her. She also feeds Jin Mi an 'Unfeeling Pill', so she will never feel any emotions - no affection or love.

Four thousand years later, the son of the Heavenly Emperor, Phoenix, was bathed in a fiery nirvana - the branch of the parasol tree burned for forty nine days. When the fire extinguished, Phoenix was nowhere to be seen. The Heavenly Emperor was furious