Shen Qingci, a modern medical student, wakes up as an abandoned consort in the Cold Palace and is bound to a livestream System. While other consorts compete for the emperor's favor, she farms, sells products, and invents things in the Cold Palace. While others scheme against each other, she starts classes to teach the palace maids to read and do accounts. She only wants to save enough money to escape quietly, but her high-yield crops and epidemic-prevention remedies soon make her famous throughout the land. She also unexpectedly saves the poisoned Emperor Xiao Jingheng.
When her secret identity is exposed, Xiao Jingheng discovers that the woman he had mistaken for his moonlight was never the one he thought, and that the woman who saved his life was the very one he had mistreated. His desperate quest to win her back begins, but Shen Qingci fakes her death and slips away. Under the new name Guiwan, she builds Yiyangtang into an imperial merchant house and opens girls' schools across Jiangnan's prefectures.
Xiao Jingheng sets aside his imperial pride and makes the empire his game board: when she sells cosmetics, he gives them an “Imperial Use” label; when she opens schools, he backs her with policy; when the border is in crisis, he leads the army in person, while she rallies the women of Jiangnan to make cotton clothes and medicinal salves around the clock and send them thousands of miles to the front. From suspicion to standing side by side, from longing across north and south to sharing life and death.
In the end, he establishes the unprecedented “Women's Affairs Bureau” and grants her a third-rank official post, ruling the realm alongside him. In turn, she teaches him that the truest devotion is not possession, but helping someone become all they can be. Watch her shine with dazzling brilliance in a boundless world.
[One couple, both devoted only to each other, a desperate quest to win her back, a heroine focused on her career, and a hero who learns to love by figuring things out for himself. Both stay sharp throughout. From farming in the Cold Palace to becoming Jiangnan's richest woman, from abandoned consort to female official, this is a distinctive tale of an ancient woman standing on her own and ultimately ruling alongside the emperor.]
