Meng Yuan, a modern-day college student, unexpectedly travels back in time to Nanzhao and becomes the legitimate daughter of the Meng family, who is destined to die a tragic death in history. Forced by a system to win over the infamous young tyrant Xie Hui and bring peace and prosperity to the realm, she uses her storytelling skills and imaginative tales to become the only light in the mad emperor's darkness. The crazier he becomes, the more clingy he gets; the more she comforts him, the more frightened she feels. Between an obsessive emperor who insists they must meet year after year, family conspiracies, and a collapsing political landscape, can she survive?