Zhou Yang, the male protagonist, is a student at Zhongzhou University. Since starting college, he has eagerly taken part in all kinds of community activities. At a lecture hosted by the history department, he sees Wen Xin, the girl serving as the event's host, for the first time and is instantly smitten. He can't get her out of his mind. But when, after three years of secretly admiring her, he finally works up the courage to confess his feelings at his roommates' urging, she turns him down. After drinking with his roommates to drown his sorrows, he wakes up to find himself in the Northern Song Dynasty, more than a thousand years in the past, during the Jiayou era. He has become a poor scholar. There, he meets many famous historical figures from the Jiayou era and is gradually swept into the tide of the times, growing as the world around him changes. Along the way, he also meets a woman who looks just like the girl he had a crush on. After many twists and turns, the two finally find their way to each other.
