Su Nian, a law student, dies in an accident and transmigrates into the Great Yu Dynasty, an ancient world where everyone can cultivate and history is as strange as a parallel timeline.
Instead of being born a pampered princess, she becomes a lowly maid abandoned by her parents and bought by Xiao Yan, the powerful Prince of Zhennan who rules the court.
He coldly uses her, while she sees him as a “dictator” who ought to be judged by the law. In this brutal age, she tries to use modern knowledge to kindle a glimmer of hope, only to have it mercilessly crushed by his iron-fisted rule.
As he is gradually scorched by her belief that “all people are equal,” and she discovers the wounds beneath his cruel facade on her path to revenge, the two begin an epic love story amid the torrent of history, one about power, hatred, and redemption.
Until one day, he finds a booklet she left behind. On it, in bold writing, are the words:
“Xiao Yan, found guilty of intentional murder and treason. Given the combined charges, you are sentenced to death and stripped of your political rights for life.”
