On a rainy night, Su Ning, a female constable from the Kaifeng Prefecture, stumbles into an unfamiliar city in a sorry state. It is Chen Qing's bowl of hot soup and the shelter of his roof that give her a little peace in this fleeting world.
The blade she once used to hunt down criminals is replaced by a carving knife. His wooden sculpture, Spring Dawn on the Bian River, holds the dream of her old home, and captures the tenderness in his eyes.
When a Song-dynasty heroine meets a warmhearted modern man, their hearts connect across time, and they journey toward each other for a happy ending.