Lin You, a top modern history student, unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of a peasant girl in the Qin Dynasty.
To survive, she presents the art of papermaking, but this touches a nerve with the powerful Zhao Gao, and she narrowly escapes assassination! Fortunately, the eldest prince, Fusu, takes her under his protection, drawing her into the maelstrom of power in Great Qin.
As locust plagues rage, farming tools remain primitive, and the people suffer, she uses modern knowledge to break the deadlock: she introduces ingenious methods to combat locusts and improves the curved-shaft plow. Every step shakes the court, drawing suspicion from Li Si, assistance from the Mohists, and the attention of the future Conqueror of Chu, Xiang Yu.
As she and the gentle, refined Prince Fusu come to understand and cherish one another while changing history, their feelings quietly grow, though a gulf of a thousand years separates them.
When the First Emperor’s decree arrives, ordering her to accompany Meng Tian to the bitterly cold northern frontier to oversee grain supplies and farming, can she use her knowledge and courage to forge a new path for Great Qin in a borderland where the northern wind cuts like a blade?
Watch a modern woman wield knowledge like a blade, reshape the battlefield of an iron-blooded Qin, stir up a storm, and defy fate!
This is one of the novels among all the time-travel dramas I have watched, in which the time-travelers are unable to understand the language after time-traveling and need to learn the language and writing.