One stormy night, a car accident hurled Chen Mo, an ordinary office worker on his way to pick up his girlfriend after work, into the whirlpool of history. When he awoke in agony, he was horrified to find himself dressed in a bright yellow imperial robe, transformed into the young emperor of the Ming dynasty: Yingzong of Ming, Zhu Qizhen, who was about to be taken prisoner during the Tumu Crisis!
The boy in the mirror had a face as handsome as jade, but his eyes were full of the exhaustion and panic of a modern soul. The fawning smile of the powerful eunuch Wang Zhen concealed murderous intent, while the loyal minister Yu Qian's anguished questions about the empire weighed heavily on every word. Worse still, tomorrow was the calamity that would destroy hundreds of thousands of elite troops!
Chen Mo only wanted to escape the deadly throne, but he was forced to face the arrogant provocations of the Oirat envoys. Then a bloodstained white jade magnolia pendant at an envoy's waist struck him like a thunderbolt. It was the keepsake his girlfriend, Su Wanqing, never took off! Had Wanqing transmigrated too? Was her life hanging in the balance in enemy territory? Was the Oirat leader Esen's "Tumu Fort appointment" a trap, or the only clue to finding his beloved?
The Forbidden City was riddled with danger: the corpse of a mysterious guard behind a screen, a hidden compartment beneath the imperial desk, Wang Zhen's cold, watchful gaze... Every corner concealed deadly mysteries and murderous intent. Under Zhu Qizhen's identity, before the noose of history tightened and the empire teetered on the brink of collapse, Chen Mo had to make a choice:
Could he carve a path through the blood and escape his destined defeat?
Behind that bloodstained jade pendant, was Wanqing a hostage in enemy territory, or had she... become entangled in an even more terrifying conspiracy across time?
And was he himself the force that would rewrite history, or a doomed ruler of a fallen dynasty, destined to plunge into the abyss?
Terror on a rainy night, an imperial robe upon his shoulders.
