The Empress of the Great Yao, Ling Zhaonan, drank poisoned wine on the night of the palace coup, but accidentally traveled through a thousand years with the Phoenix Jade Pei and fell into a strange world in the 21st century. From the intrigues in the court to the fireworks in the market, from the ninth-five-year-old to the helpless stranger, she struggled to adapt to modern life with her obsession and confusion about her hometown, under the gentle protection of Gu Yanchen, a top student in the history department.