Ordinary high school students Lin Zhixia, Xu Nianhe, Su Wantang, and Zhou Xun, along with their homeroom teacher Chen Yu, unexpectedly transmigrate to a parallel world ruled by powerful financial clans. They take the places of five people from very different backgrounds and are dropped into the world’s most elite circles: Chenyao International Academy.
The academy sits in a restricted zone halfway up a mountain in Yunjing City, serving as a battleground for the ten great financial clans. Enrolling means stepping into the highest echelon of global society, where class barriers are rigid. The heirs of the ten clans sit at the top, wearing diamond-studded badges. Ordinary rich kids climb the ranks with gold badges. Each year, only a handful of poor students earn silver badges through humiliating effort, and even then, they are little more than window dressing.
The transmigrators face a double challenge: they must pretend to be the people they replaced and fit into elite society, while holding on to who they are in a school rife with undercurrents. The cool-headed Su Wantang takes the place of the spoiled eldest daughter of the Gu family and becomes the group’s “protective umbrella.” Lively Lin Zhixia becomes a bookstore heiress, gentle Xu Nianhe plays a well-behaved rich kid, and sunny Zhou Xun takes on the identity of a sports champion. Relying on their comic rapport and mutual support, the four navigate a complicated crowd of clan heirs, scheming white lotuses, and quiet top students, all they want is to study in peace.
Chen Yu, mature and steady, unexpectedly becomes a professor at the academy and secretly watches over them as their teacher. From their uneasy first steps through the school gates to their cautious behavior in class, they adapt to the rules of the upper world while holding on to the conscience and warmth of ordinary people.
In this high-stakes game of wealth and power, five transmigrators with ordinary lives find themselves at Chenyao Academy, where the class divide is immense.
