Cheng Yuwei and Lu Shiqing had been in love for years, and she looked forward to walking down the aisle with all her heart. Then an accident sent them both transmigrating to the Qing Dynasty.
Lu Shiqing was transformed into an emperor whose power ruled all beneath heaven. Surrounded by beautiful women in the imperial harem, he was soon blinded by power and beauty, casting aside his vows to Cheng Yuwei and revealing his true, faithless nature.
Cheng Yuwei, meanwhile, transmigrated into the body of the legitimate daughter of a military family. Her father doted on her, her brother cherished her, and her childhood friend, who had grown up by her side, had silently protected her for years.
By a twist of fate, she and Lu Shiqing met again. The former lovers: one a lofty, heartless emperor who had betrayed her, the other a proud noblewoman forced into the palace. Would their reunion rekindle the embers of old love, or mark the beginning of a new feud? The tangled schemes of the imperial court and their complicated feelings slowly began to unfold...