The young girl Ning Lanlan transmigrates into a melodramatic tragic romance novel, The Emperor's Beloved Sweet Consort. In the story, the heroine is a palace maid who has just entered the palace. Because she is breathtakingly beautiful, the hero takes a liking to her, and the two embark on a shameless, bickering love story. But Ning Lanlan doesn't transmigrate into the heroine. Instead, she becomes a maid to the story's supervillain...
The hero is the great general who protects the Zhou Dynasty. The current tyrant's corrupt, brutal rule and lavish lifestyle have left the people destitute and thrown the land into chaos. The hero rebels, declares himself king, topples the entire Zhou Dynasty, takes the throne, and establishes the Nian Dynasty.
The entire Zhou royal family is wiped out, but he overlooks one person: Zhou Yun, the crown prince of the Zhou Dynasty. Gravely wounded, Zhou Yun flees north with one of his maids and disappears. Ning Lanlan transmigrates as one of Zhou Yun's lowly maids and is forced to join him in his plan to restore the Zhou Dynasty.
On the first day of their restoration campaign, Zhou Yun and Ning Lanlan flee to Quanzhou to contact the remnants of the Zhou army and build up their network. But to their dismay, they realize they don't even have enough money to feed themselves, let alone raise an army.
On the second day of their restoration campaign, Ning Lanlan, feeling conflicted, starts a street-stall business with Zhou Yun, but they earn less than ten coins a day.
On the fifth day, Ning Lanlan and Zhou Yun run out of food. Starving, they collapse in a thatched hut, too weak to move.
"Your Highness, maybe... we should give up on restoring the dynasty," Ning Lanlan says, cautiously eyeing the gloomy man.
"No." Zhou Yun viciously bites into the steamed bun in his hand.
Theme: Know yourself.
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