Yu Wanyin is transported into a novel about palace politics and finds herself alongside a novel's female protagonist, who shares her fate as a villain. To change her circumstances, Yu Wanyin allies with a self-proclaimed tyrant, who also happens to be a modern man displaced into this world. This modern man, along with Yu Wanyin and King Duan, attempts to navigate the novel's conflicts and find a simpler, more relaxed life. However, the female protagonist believes in her own destiny as the chosen one and continues to oppose Yu Wanyin and her allies.