Overworked office worker Lin Wan dies suddenly from exhaustion and wakes up inside a historical romance novel, bound to a forced-romance System.
The moment she grows wary of Shen Qingci, the novel’s second male lead, an electric shock strikes her soul.
According to the script, Shen Qingci is the perfect moonlight lover who protects the heroine unconditionally.
But Lin Wan sees the truth beneath his mask.
He gently blows on her medicine to cool it, then turns around and destroys her only chance to escape;
he tenderly protects her in public, all the while trapping her step by step in a cage of courtyards.
Shen Qingci’s gentleness is no act. Childhood trauma has made him determined to do good, while cruel reality forces him to use any means necessary. Both sides of him are real, and as the two remain locked in a long struggle, they are both trapped in a dead end.
Forced to play along with the script, Lin Wan endures the System’s punishments while secretly searching for a way out.
When she finds a hidden passage, she breaks free of her cage and flees to Jiangnan;
thousands of miles away, Shen Qingci tears away his last layer of gentle disguise and brings all his forces to bear as he crosses the river and heads south.
Escape is not the end! Turmoil rises again in Jiangnan, and fate brings them together once more on a narrow path. The clash between freedom and obsession has only just begun.
