Xie Nian finds himself in another world where poetry is scarce. He only wants to keep his head down and stay alive, but the female emperor is ruthless.
At the execution ground, faced with the female emperor's threat, “Write a masterpiece that will astonish the world, or lose your head,” he blurts out the “Rhapsody on the Luo River Goddess.”
“Graceful as a startled swan, lithe as a swimming dragon...” The female emperor is instantly enthralled and unties him with her own hands.
He thinks he has escaped disaster, but then the female emperor summons him every day: “Minister Xie, do you have a new work for me today?”
Xie Nian scours the poetry of the Tang and Song dynasties, wanting only to ask: When will this showing off finally end...?
