Xie Zhi never imagined that in the middle of the night during her fifth year of doctoral studies, she would collapse before even swallowing her instant noodles, still flavored with tomato, and wake up in the ancient dynasty of Xuansheng, which she had spent seven years researching.
When she opened her eyes, she was a low-ranking female clerk in the Department of Rites.
She opened the “History Library” in her mind and realized she was headed for certain death:
On the eighth day of the ninth month in the fourteenth year of Mingde, Xie Zhi entered the palace to serve as companion to the Dowager Consort Rongde.
And the historical records said that three days later, the consort would die suddenly, and Xie Zhi, a pawn sent along as her burial companion, would perish in the palace.
Who says historians can only pore over old documents?
She knew the design of every bluestone paving slab, the fuse behind every coup, and who would rule the empire thirty years from now, and who would end up in the dust.
While everyone else thought she was just a speck of dust in the imperial palace, she calmly parted the mists of history:
A cup of poisoned tea, an account that didn't add up, and Yu Wuchang, an inner-court eunuch who wielded power over the entire court yet carried a hidden past...
“History is a river. The choices of every person together form its course.”
Once, she had been an observer on the riverbank.
Now, she was a player in the river, moving the pieces.
Watch as Xie Zhi, a history PhD, uses her delicate hands to shape the tides of power in the imperial city she knows best, fighting for a different tomorrow for herself and for a dynasty on the brink of collapse!
The plot is compact and the story has ups and downs. It's so interesting that you won't be able to put it down once you watch it.