The protagonist Lin Wanrong, a postgraduate student in the Department of Modern History and a level 10 contestant in the fast-talking field, dies suddenly while staying up late to write a thesis. When he wakes up, he finds that he has become—not an emperor, but an ancestral time traveler! He was bound to a strange system [Emperor Experience·Unlimited Refills], which required him to travel through the five emperors Jiaqing, Daoguang, Xianfeng, Tongzhi, and Guangxu in sequence. Each emperor must complete designated KPIs during his reign, otherwise he will be trapped in a dream forever.