The third day of the third lunar month is the perfect time for horseback riding and a spring outing.
The outskirts of Chang'an are packed with visitors, when an unlucky soul suddenly falls off her horse.
Jiying is that unlucky soul. She loses face, hits her head, and loses her memory.
The good news is that she remembers her parents and all the servants in the household, but not her fiance, whose surname is Cui.
The bad news is that, after losing her memory, she discovers another set of memories in her mind: she's actually a modern person who has transmigrated into this body.
A native girl turns into a transmigrator in an instant.
Jiying: Guys, this is so cool! ╹ꇴ╹
Even with her modern consciousness back, Jiying can't escape her elders nagging her about marriage.
"When a woman first becomes a wife, she must honor her parents-in-law and serve her husband..."
Jiying is exhausted from listening. She's only eighteen, barely an adult by modern standards. Why would she get married?
A marriage arranged by strangers? No way.
After a few schemes, Jiying finds the perfect opportunity and escapes over the wall in the dead of night with her trusted attendants.
Trying to evade the household guards chasing her, Jiying rushes headlong into a long line of men on their way to take the imperial examinations. By a strange twist of fate, she ends up appointed by the emperor himself as a seventh-rank circuit inspector.
I don't seek an official post, but one comes looking for me.
Jiying: Fate has decided! Looks like running away from the wedding was the right choice!
Ordered to travel south and investigate a case in a time of crisis, Jiying and her young servant stumble upon countless strange happenings along the way:
A baby crying in a coffin at midnight, the tofu-pudding beauty of Lanxi County, a frail "young master" with a hidden illness, the mysterious Paradise Tower...
Just as she's about to crack one bizarre case after another, a shocking truth suddenly hits her: the close friend who has been calling her brother and working alongside her to solve cases all these days is the very fiance she ran away from.
Even worse, he knew her true identity from the start!
Jiying, who has been playing the "Mongolian," is so furious that she immediately shoves open her abandoned husband's door and scolds him sharply. "Cui Tanjie, you're going too far! You have no shame!"
The room is quiet and empty. It seems she came all this way for nothing. Just as Jiying is about to turn and leave, someone suddenly wraps an arm around her waist from behind.
Then a low, tender voice sounds close to her ear:
"What use is shame? All I want is Yingying."
Theme: The courage to find oneself
