Qin Fan only likes reading obscure historical anecdotes in her spare time to enrich her inner world. But how did reading them end up drawing her into the story?
Everyone else gets to be young and full of life, but when it's her turn, she's already old and frail, even sick in bed?
Lying in bed, Qin Fan passes the time by recalling the history books and miscellaneous records she's read. Could thinking about them hard enough really let her experience them firsthand?
The paper characters she'd once read about now stand alive before her. Qin Fan is thrilled. How is this any different from having the power to see everything?
A thousand years ago, when power reigns supreme, she is determined to become a high-ranking court official, second only to the emperor and above all others: The Outcast.
Chu Lanzhou has long grown tired of the prison-like inner quarters. She dreams of leaving her cage one day, casting everything aside for the sake of freedom.
Perhaps sincerity makes wishes come true. Half-asleep, she seems to see someone reaching out a hand and asking if she'd like to leave with them.
Unable to resist, she takes the hand. When she opens her eyes again, she has arrived hundreds of years in the future.
Everything she once dreamed of is right before her, yet she willingly lets love imprison her, wishing only to spend her life with her beloved.
Qin Fan: I want to seize power!
Chu Lanzhou: I only want to seize you.
Theme: Zhuangzi dreams he is a butterfly, and wakes lost in the dream.
