A car accident that crossed the boundaries of time sent Lin Yue, a modern career woman, and Su Qing, heir to a family of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners, plunging into the Forbidden City in the twenty-eighth year of the Qianlong era, carrying the knowledge and memories of the twenty-first century. They took the places of Xiao Yanzi, whose life had been fraught with hardship, and the gifted Ziwei. Beneath the nine tiers of glazed tiles at the Hall of Heavenly Purity, however, they ignited a storm of reform that would overturn the age.
Lin Yue used her martial arts skills and modern way of thinking to break through obstacles, building the “Great Qing Logistics Network” to tear down barriers to trade and force Qianlong to confront the people’s hardships. Su Qing revolutionized the Imperial Medical Academy with modern anatomy and used artemisinin to save people from a plague, but came to face mortal danger when accused of “practicing witchcraft as a female physician.” They joined forces as they pursued reform, yet every step brought fresh peril as they challenged the foundations of imperial power.
When the secrets finally came to light, Qianlong pressed the imperial jade seal onto a paternity test. Su Qing’s manuscript yellowed with age, stained by Er Kang’s ink... At last, caught between imperial and popular rights, they used the light of modernity to illuminate the night sky over the Great Qing.
Yet history’s tide never turns back. Would they choose to forget their mission and remain in the Forbidden City, or return to the modern world with their memories intact? This two-way redemption spanning three centuries had long since transcended romance, becoming an eternal dialogue between two generations about freedom and change.
