An obsession that spans time and space, a watch that lasts forever.
Shen Qingli, the Queen of the Great Xiao Dynasty, was exhausted physically and mentally after years of cold treatment in the palace and repeated frame-ups by her concubine Lin Wan'er. During a period of confinement, she received the help of a mysterious old eunuch in desperation. Through the secret passage in the palace and the world-opening mirror, she resolutely abandoned her status and past and escaped to a modern world that was completely different from what she knew.
In the new world, Shen Qingli started from scratch and struggled to adapt to the bizarre modern life. She met the gentle and elegant surgeon Gu Jingshen. With his patient help and careful care, she gradually healed her heartache, regained her self-worth, and opened a new chapter in her life with her own wisdom and deep understanding of traditional medicine. At the same time, as the two get along day and night, their emotions quietly grow and warm each other.
On the other side, after the emperor Xiao Chengyu discovered that Shen Qingli had disappeared mysteriously, he was furious and felt unprecedented panic and emptiness. He accidentally obtained the world-wide mirror that could see into another world, and he was able to witness Shen Qingli's every move in the other world - her adaptation, her growth, her smile, and the gentle man beside her.
The image in the mirror was like a poisonous thorn, gnawing at his heart day and night. The previous indifference and misunderstanding gradually collapsed in the face of the facts, and the intense jealousy and bone-gnawing regret intertwined, making him miserable. He exhausted all means, but found in despair that although the World Mirror could present images, it could not break the world's barriers. He can only be an eternal spectator, watching helplessly as his lost lover gains happiness on the other side beyond his reach, while he himself is forever imprisoned in the cage of longing and regret.
Concept: combination of ancient and modern times