Shen Yuwei, heir to a modern-day demolition crew, wakes up in an old-school romance novel as Consort Shu, a doomed cannon-fodder character who won't survive three chapters. The original Consort Shu constantly brought disaster upon herself in her bid for the emperor's favor, eventually getting her entire family executed. She's the perfect cautionary tale of a woman ruled by love.
Knowing how the story goes, Shen Yuwei has this to say: Compete for favor? Not even a dog would do that! Better to take the initiative than sit around waiting to die. Since she's doomed anyway, she might as well tear this stifling palace apart first!
The pillars in the Jade Shard Pavilion are too flimsy? Tear them down!
The Nine-Bend Bridge in the imperial garden, built for the emperor's unattainable first love, is an eyesore? Tear it down!
The floor tiles in the Empress Dowager's palace, where a secret is hidden, are uneven? Tear them up!
She even wants to rip off Emperor Xiao Jingyuan's mask of “devotion” with her own hands and see just how much scheming lies beneath it.
From tearing down palaces to dismantling plots, from mouthing off to the emperor to taking on the Empress Dowager, Shen Yuwei wreaks havoc in the palace with her demolition crew's ancestral crowbar. She plans to leave once she's had enough, but as she tears things down, she unexpectedly uncovers the undercurrents at court, a glimmer of hope for herself and the Shen family, and even manages to turn the cold-faced emperor's full attention her way.
Xiao Jingyuan (gritting his teeth): Shen Yuwei! When are you going to stop tearing things down?
Shen Yuwei (tossing the axe in her hand): Don't worry, Your Majesty. Next, I'll take down the shoddy beams in your imperial study!
When a demolition expert meets a scheming emperor, who will see through whose heart first? This farcical uproar that began with tearing down the palace unexpectedly becomes the start of a twist of fate.
