Su Tao, an orphan from the modern world, transmigrates into a period novel as a doomed supporting character, targeted by her reborn cousin. Knowing the future, her cousin steals the fiancé destined to become a tycoon and leaves Su Tao with Huo Beihan, a man fated to die young.
Everyone expects Su Tao to accept her fate and meet a miserable end.
But Su Tao refuses.
If she can't escape, she'll take another path and walk it herself.
She takes Huo Beihan's hand. Fine, she'll marry him.