[This story is entirely fictional]
Qin Wan, a history graduate student, spent five straight days burning the midnight oil after her thesis failed to win her advisor's approval. Exhausted in body and mind, she finally died. When she opened her eyes again, she discovered she had transmigrated into the heavily modified game The World, which she had spent days complaining about, and become Wu Meiniang, newly arrived at the palace in the twentieth year of the Zhenguan era, the woman destined to become Wu Zetian.
This game world blends reality and illusion. Its relationships and historical events seem both true and false. Trapped in an ancient body with a modern soul, she has no choice but to tread carefully amid the palace's power struggles.
In the twenty-second year of Zhenguan, through Princess Gaoyang, she met Prince Li Zhi of Jin. The young heir apparent fell for her at first sight, but their love could not withstand the pressure of history's course and the court's political machinations.
Wu Meiniang was forced to leave the palace and enter Ganye Temple, where she became a nun while keeping her hair. She endured six long years beside the oil lamps and ancient Buddha statues.
The passage of six years did nothing to extinguish their love. Li Zhi plotted in secret and eventually brought her back to the palace, granting her the title of Consort Chen and lavishing her with favor.
But the road through the imperial palace is never smooth. The tragic fate of Gaoyang and Bianji followed her like a shadow, and after returning to court, she faced countless open and covert attacks.
From being forced to become a nun to returning to the palace, from basking in imperial favor to becoming a target for all, every step felt like walking on the edge of a blade.
With her historical insight and modern wisdom, Qin Wan finds a way through the tangled maze of fate, where reality and illusion intertwine. She and Li Zhi support each other, remaining true to themselves amid the whirlpool of power and passion.
In the end, she not only fulfills the ultimate mission assigned by the game, ascends the throne, and ushers in a golden age, but also finds a glorious ending shaped by her own will in this rewritten epic.
