Top student Ziyuan rejects wealthy heir Lu Zeyu, only to be kidnapped. When she wakes up, she finds herself in Tianxiang Courtyard, a place steeped in ancient charm, and mistakenly believes she has traveled to another world. After three years of deception, she falls into Lu Zeyu's obsessive affection, a twisted mixture of cruelty and tenderness. But when she accidentally overhears actors whispering, she suddenly realizes the truth: she never traveled through time at all. Tianxiang Courtyard is nothing but a false cage built by Lu Zeyu.