Crossing the River with Compassion

A freedom-loving, unyielding heroine VS a ruthless, unhinged powerful official

Leng Miaomiao, a modern office worker, transmigrates by accident into the body of a maid serving as a concubine in a powerful official's residence. Faced with Song Qingci, the cold-faced governor who acts without hesitation, she would rather smash her head against a wall than bend her back. Though all she wants is to find a way home, she is swept into a bloody web of court conspiracies and desert power struggles.

When the purple hydrangea trapped in its cage shatters the snow and wind of the northern frontier, when secret letters hidden in a study's locked compartment are soaked in the misty rain of Qinhuai, the man who once said, "I'd destroy the world before I let you go," asks hoarsely as she turns away, "If I were willing to tear down this golden cage, would you teach me what it means to love sincerely?"

She hides her modern way of thinking and pretends to be obedient, while he sees through every disguise and grows ever more deranged.

Her jade pendant conceals the way home, yet someone insists on locking her in with an empire and using his true feelings as a cage!