Everyone thought the jade bracelet that couldn't be removed at the night market was just an ordinary antique.
Only Xie Jianqing knew it was a strange key leading to another world.
The moment she entered the dream, she found herself a pure-yin sacrifice, awaiting slaughter on an altar.
At the end of a dynasty, demons ran rampant, disasters struck one after another, and regional princes held power. The court and the people alike believed that sacrifices to Heaven could suppress calamity.
Everyone waited for her life to appease Heaven's wrath and bring peace to a troubled age.
At the brink of life and death, Shen Que, the indolent and cunning Imperial Preceptor, appeared beneath the moon.
He commanded the Bureau of Astronomy and mastered yin-yang divination. With amber eyes that saw through fate and the human heart,
he wielded immense power, feared no emperor, and stood alone against the crowd to save her as casually as if it were nothing.
Declaring her fate ominous, he brought the entire sacrificial ceremony to a halt,
then casually claimed her for himself and tossed her into the Bureau of Astronomy as an unremarkable cleaning servant.
By day, she is an ordinary graduate student, rushing to meet paper deadlines and dashing between labs, living a simple life amid the everyday bustle.
By night, she falls into an ancient world of demons and monsters, caught in political intrigue and the secrets of sacrificial rites, where every step is fraught with danger.
All she wants is to stay alive, using modern knowledge to protect herself and survive. Yet she gradually discovers that these nightly dreams are no illusion, that the ancient jade bracelet locked around her wrist and the bond spanning two worlds, and that seemingly carefree Imperial Preceptor who appears to care about nothing, have all been part of his plans for her across time and space.
Every chance meeting, every rescue, every act of shelter,
was never coincidence. It was the obsession she had plotted for ages.
