In the modern world, Chen Xiaoman is a poor student struggling to make ends meet. He works in a milk tea shop every day and is overwhelmed by rent and livelihood. His only solace is his secret crush on Lin Shu, an elite lawyer who often comes to buy coffee. In the Dajing Dynasty in parallel time and space, Shen Zhilan, a sixth-grade female official, was outstanding in talent and learning, but struggled in the officialdom because of her status as a woman. She was also involved in an imperial examination fraud case and became a pawn in the game between the powerful.
On a bloody moonlit night, the two accidentally exchanged identities - Chen Xiaoman became a frightening female official in the court, while Shen Zhilan fell into a completely unfamiliar modern world. Facing completely different lives, they were forced to live as each other: Chen Xiaoman used modern thinking to solve ancient mysteries, while Shen Zhilan used female official methods to rectify the chaotic real life.
As time passed, they discovered that this exchange was no accident. A mysterious bronze mirror connects the two worlds, and behind it lies a traveler who is trying to break the balance of time and space. When the fates of the two worlds begin to intertwine, they must find their way back within seven full moons, otherwise they will forever become "strangers" in the other world.
——Seeing each other in the mirror, rewriting fate with pen.
