The heroine traveled through time to become a substitute princess, and found that she was at a critical point in a sadistic novel, and was about to be designed to be a substitute for death. But she awakened the "group mind reading" golden finger and could hear the true thoughts of everyone around her. When she discovered that the civil and military officials of the court and the royal family were planning to use her and kill her, she decided not to follow the script. She chose to join forces with the most dangerous and uncontrollable "villain" in the city, Jiu Qiansui. One needed a backer to survive, and the other needed a chess piece to disrupt the situation. Both of them had their own agendas, but they began a subversive journey from mutual use to mutual trust.