A middle-aged screenwriter travels back in time to the Hongzhi era of the Ming Dynasty, where he encounters Tang Bohu at the lowest point of his life. Everyone knows Tang Yin as a gifted and charming scholar surrounded by wives and concubines, but the man before him is destitute, lonely, and helpless. Faced with life's hardships, should he submit to fate or summon the courage to change his destiny? A butterfly from another time flaps its wings, but where will the long road ahead lead?