Jiang Ce opened his eyes and found himself the Empress of the Great Yao dynasty.
At a palace banquet, the Noble Consort had just drunk the wine he offered when she collapsed, poisoned. Every member of the imperial clan stared at him, but he did not even know his own name.
When he opened his eyes again, he had become the poisoned Noble Consort, with no memory at all of what had happened the day before.
Jiang Ce did not know that he was waking on alternating days as Empress Shen Zhaotang and Noble Consort Xiao Mingyue. Today, he set a trap in Fengyi Palace to guard against the Noble Consort; tomorrow, in Zhaoyang Palace, he would walk straight into it himself. He had to find the evidence he had just hidden and overturn the orders he had just issued.
He grew more and more certain that someone on the other side was also a transmigrator.
Then the maids in both palaces began keeping records of the same strange illness, and the emperor noticed that the two women who had fought for years seemed to be taking turns becoming the same person.
Meanwhile, the real enemy had already begun counting the days they were lucid...