Modern architect Yan Shuqi accidentally activated the ancestral bronze compass and was drawn into the vortex of time and space, falling into the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. On an ancient bridge in a heavy rain, he bumped into a wedding party that was attacked by bandits, and accidentally rescued the bride Shen Qingmo in the sedan - a declining aristocratic lady who was arranged by her family to marry the prefect. Two souls from different worlds collided with each other on the way to escape. When Yan Shuqi discovered that Shen Qingmo's jade pendant could actually cause the compass to move, he realized that there was a fateful entanglement that spanned four hundred years behind this encounter.
Following the encirclement and suppression by the pursuers and mysterious bandits sent by the prefect, the two hid in the Shen family's abandoned villa and found clues in ancient books that "a continuum of seven stars can open the door to time and space." As they get along day and night, the rigorous and rational modern architect and the smart and tenacious ancient lady are attracted to each other. Yan Shuqi's architectural sketches drawn with charcoal amazed Shen Qingmo, and the tea ceremony calligraphy rules she taught allowed him to appreciate oriental aesthetics. When the prefect threatened the lives of the entire Shen family, Shen Qingmo resolutely chose to surrender, but she didn't know that Yan Shuqi had broken into the tiger's den to rescue him. At the critical moment of life and death, the bronze compass resonated with the ancient monument to open a space-time passage. Shen Qingmo held Yan Shuqi's hand and jumped into the light, choosing to follow him to a strange future world.
Shen Qingmo was shocked by the bustling traffic of modern cities, and Yan Shuqi also faced a crisis of identity exposure. When he found the time and space diary left behind by his grandfather, the two were shocked to find that Shen Qingmo's grandmother was a traveler from three hundred years ago, and her blood had the secret to protect time and space. The pursuit of the mysterious organization "Space-Time Administration", the gradually transparent body, and the 49-day countdown to survival.