Chu Feng, a modern history student, died suddenly after staying up all night and transmigrated to the Great Xia Dynasty, where he became a scholar in a small border town. Spies noticed him analyzing court politics in his room and began keeping watch on him, before he was “invited” into the palace. The empress, Xia Qingying, is an iron-fisted tyrant facing threats at home and abroad, and treats Chu Feng as a disposable tool.
Chu Feng awakens the “Emperor’s Eye” System, which lets him read people’s hearts and sense impending crises. He appears compliant while secretly making his own plans, using his modern knowledge and the System’s abilities to help the empress overcome one crisis after another. The empress gradually comes to rely on him, while Chu Feng grows from a pawn into a player.
The two endure power struggles, emotional entanglements, and life-and-death trials, eventually going from using each other to truly falling in love. Chu Feng wins a great victory in the northern campaign, becoming so powerful that he threatens the throne. The empress wrestles with whether to kill him, but ultimately chooses to hand over half her empire. They marry, rule the realm together, and usher in an unprecedented golden age.
