Three hundred thousand shi of disaster relief grain mysteriously disappear. While investigating the case, Empress Xiao Zhaoyue of the Great Sheng Dynasty is hunted by Prince Ning. Using the Imperial Dragon Seal, she passes through a stone gate and accidentally enters a modern film studio, where she ends up playing a corpse as an extra in the mud. With the help of crew leader Zhou Fang, she discovers that a few dozen yuan can buy life-saving food. From then on, under the assumed name Yue Zhao, she earns money acting in films while transporting grain and medicine back to ancient times. But Prince Ning's twenty thousand cavalrymen are closing in, while unscrupulous modern businessmen have their eyes on the secret connecting the two worlds. Can a fallen empress and a sharp-tongued crew leader join forces to crush the rebellion and restore peace to the famine-stricken Great Sheng Dynasty?