Jiang Ce, a modern web novel editor, travels through time to Great Jing and awakens as a fake eunuch in Changchun Palace, where he accidentally witnesses Noble Consort Su Wanying murdering someone to silence them. To save his life, he clings to Su Wanying's favor and gradually grows stronger through massage techniques, interrogating spies, finding treasures at the black market, and killing a tiger on Tiger Mountain. He also obtains extraordinary opportunities, including a Hundred Blessings Knot and the ancient Five Punishments Sword. He helps Su Wanying bring down Zhou Fuhai, exposes the Second Prince's disgraceful deeds, and destroys Empress Wang's Nine-Dragon Evil Scheme. At the grand sacrificial ceremony, Jiang Ce fakes his death before making a dramatic return. With the Aspect of the Ancestral Dragon and the Five Punishments Sword, he kills the treacherous Empress Wang, saves the emperor, and puts down the rebellion. In the end, he is bestowed the title of Great Jing's Nine-Thousand-Year Lord.