Modern college student Yun Zhi stays up all night reading a novel and dies suddenly, only to transmigrate into the legitimate daughter doomed to be cannon fodder in a historical family-intrigue novel. In the original story, she is timid and useless, poisoned by her stepmother, robbed of her marriage by her half-sister, and ultimately killed. Yun Zhi sneers: Time to rewrite the script!
First, she turns the tables and kicks the half-sister who tried to make her fall into the lake right into it. Then she burns the “love letter” planted to frame her and uses Tang and Song poetry to crush everyone at a poetry gathering. The mysterious imperial uncle Xiao Jing repeatedly comes to her rescue, but always watches her with a searching gaze. Why is this sinister, scheming villain from the original story so interested in her?
After binding to a quick transmigration System, Yun Zhi discovers that her missions are intertwined with Xiao Jing’s secrets: preventing a royal marriage alliance, rescuing loyal officials who have been wrongly accused, and finding the imperial jade seal… She uses modern knowledge to solve each crisis, while he quietly clears away obstacles for her. When they venture through a secret passage, she tends his wounds. At a palace banquet, she gets drunk and stumbles into his arms. At a polo match, he swoops in to save her in front of everyone. When they’re stranded in a mountain village, they’re forced to pretend to be husband and wife.
When Xiao Jing discovers the phoenix-destiny birthmark on her shoulder, and Yun Zhi realizes that his study contains a manuscript written by someone who transmigrated, the two finally come clean. He takes her hand. “If you want this realm, I’ll fight for it for you. If you want to go home, I’ll help you find a way.”
But the Third Prince betrays the country, the Northern Di army closes in, and the System suddenly issues its ultimate mission: gather the jade seals to open a portal through time and space. Yun Zhi, one hand on her pregnant belly, faces a choice: return to the modern world or stay for the man she loves? In court, Xiao Jing swings his sword at the dragon throne. “Without her, I’d rather not have this realm!”
