As graduation season arrives, Xiao Yuan looks forward to reuniting with her parents. But before the surprise comes the shock.
A car crash, a fall from a cliff. Xiao's father dies on the spot, while her mother, shielded by him, is left gravely injured and unconscious.
When Xiao Yuan arrives at the hospital, she discovers that the jade thumb ring in her mother's palm is actually a pocket dimension. Inside, a half-grown boy lies motionless, on the verge of death.
After saving him, she learns that his name is Yingzi and that he comes from the Tianqi Dynasty.
It is the dynasty her parents spent their whole lives studying.
Even her name is the same as that of the Tianqi Dynasty's Grand Princess, the protector of the realm.
Before the car crash, her parents had been on their way to search for the ruins of the Tianqi Dynasty.
From Yingzi, she learns that the Tianqi Dynasty is now beset by invasions from four kingdoms and ravaged by natural and man-made disasters. Its people are suffering, and the realm lies in ruins.
Using the passage between the two worlds, Xiao Yuan gradually changes the course of the dynasty's fall and slowly peels away the outer veil of Tianqi.
