The author of a novel transmigrates into the doomed emperor Ji Yan, a character from his own story, and is placed under the control of the System, which forces the nation toward destruction and harvests its people. Joining forces with Shen Lanyi and Shang Xin, he searches for loopholes in the System, breaks free of the script’s constraints, destroys the harvesting server, and leads the people in escaping their fated path to build a world of their own.