The Heart-Stirring Glass Tribulation

Lin Xiaowei, a modern girl and graduate student specializing in ancient Chinese architecture, is electrocuted while surveying a Qing dynasty prince's mansion slated for demolition. She is trying to protect a pillar carved with strange patterns. When she wakes, she discovers that she has possessed the body of a collateral-clan girl named Zhaojia Liuli during the Kangxi era.

Because Liuli's family has ties to Yinzhu, the Fifteenth Prince who oversees the Imperial Household Department's workshops, her advanced knowledge of ancient architecture draws her into the heart of power in an unexpected way: she takes part in designing palace gardens and artifacts. She had planned to use her knowledge to protect herself, but before she realizes it, she has become a peculiar and precious "ally" and "chess piece" in the princes' eyes.