Ling Wei, a brilliant PhD in polymer chemistry with exceptional intelligence, rigorous reasoning, and superb practical skills, is caught in an accidental explosion while researching a new high-energy composite material in the laboratory. Her soul transmigrates into Feng Zhiwei, the daughter of a disgraced official in the Tiangong Dynasty. Armed with a complete body of chemical knowledge far ahead of its time, she and her partner Xiao Jingyuan develop mutual admiration and an ambiguous attraction as they pursue their shared interests and test each other's wits. Their intellectual sparring gives rise to a tense, flirtatious push and pull.