Song Yaozhi, a modern workplace worker, accidentally time-travels into a book, becoming the wronged general's wife in the story. She only wants a divorce and to get away, but she is mistakenly bound by fate to the emperor Cen Yi through Gu worms. She navigates the turmoil between the general's mansion and the imperial court, uses her wisdom to defuse crisis after crisis, breaks free from an unhappy marriage, and shares life and death through dangerous situations with Cen Yi, stepping out into a brand-new life of her own.