[Possessing another's body|substitute|court intrigue in an alternate setting|fated push and pull|mutual bonds|reunion across time and space, HE]
[Resilient senior master artisan × restrained, loyal great general]
Jiang Tan, a modern designer of traditional architecture, unexpectedly transmigrates to the Great Jing Dynasty while investigating her father's murderer.
With no one to rely on and nothing to her name, she advances step by step through the Ministry of Works with her architectural and landscaping skills, rising through the ranks on her own merit until she secures a senior position as a master artisan in court. She keeps her head down and bides her time, all to unmask an enemy from another era.
Two souls hide within the bluestone, and fate binds them together.
She and the great general Lian Jiu become entangled, each the other's weakness and the only person the other can rely on.
Then, during an audience with the emperor, Jiang Tan suddenly sees the truth.
The soul dwelling in the body of the current Great Jing emperor belongs to the man who murdered her father, the enemy she has sought for years.
Hatred burns in her heart, and her eyes turn blood-red.
From then on, she and Lian Jiu plot in secret and make their moves one by one, vowing to drive the vengeful soul from the emperor's body for good and overturn a court that only pretends to be at peace.
Once the seven gardens are fully restored, the calamities of the world finally pass.
But she is a visitor from another world. With the barriers between eras set in stone, she must eventually bid farewell to Great Jing, leave everything behind, and return to the modern world alone.
At the place where they first met, she softly says goodbye and urges him to forget it all.
“Farewell. I'm glad we met.”
The once-calm eyes of Lian Jiu, serene for half his life, are left desolate and lifeless forevermore.
A thousand years pass, and the world changes.
He shatters the long years and crosses mountains and seas through time and space, until at last he meets his Jiang Tan again in the crowds of the present day.
