Lord He, Your Playboy Persona Has Crumbled

Synopsis

Lin Yue, a modern-day office drone and comedy lover, is staying up late making fun of Heshen for being a “tsundere” when she accidentally gets electrocuted. Her soul transmigrates into the daughter of a disgraced official whose family is being seized in the fortieth year of the Qianlong reign. By a twist of fate, she ends up as a servant in Heshen's household. With her irreverent, sharp-tongued personality and a head full of modern jokes, she repeatedly gets into “trouble” in the rule-bound household: she talks her way out of punishment after breaking porcelain, gives nicknames to Qianlong's imperial annotations, and even uses modern thinking to help Heshen outmaneuver his rivals at court.

At this point, Heshen has yet to become a powerful force at court. Though deeply calculating, scheming, and secretly passionate, he is always wary of people. Yet he alone is drawn to this young woman whose words and actions are “beyond the pale.” He restrains his feelings and can only protect her quietly from the shadows: secretly sending an imperial physician when she falls ill, discreetly stepping in when others make things difficult for her, and masking his jealousy and affection with a cold face and “deliberate provocations.”

The clash between Lin Yue's modern outlook and feudal etiquette creates endless comic moments, but danger lurks beneath the laughter. Her transmigrator identity could be exposed at any moment, and pressure from political rivals at court drags her into a vortex of power. As Heshen is torn between ambition and love, and her very existence becomes a vulnerability his enemies can exploit, the two navigate the undercurrents of the Qianlong era. They work through their relationship amid chaotic daily mishaps, while joining forces to face the court's shifting political tides, until they must choose between power and true love.

This is a hilarious romance that crosses time, and a story of mutual devotion between a secretly passionate minister in a feudal cage and a funny woman who transmigrated into his world.