Zhang Xiao is a typical modern day 9-to-5 white-collar worker struggling day to day to advance her career. Her dreams of the future mirrored those of any modern day city worker - a home, travel and love. One day, Zhang Xiao's life changes dramatically when she is involved in a car accident and her soul is transported into the past. She wakes to finds herself in the imperial residence of the eighth prince, Yinsi, during the reign of Kangxi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty. She is tended by maidservants who refer to her as Second Miss Ma'ertai Ruoxi, 16-year old daughter of a Manchu aristocrat and younger sister of the eighth prince's concubine Ma'ertai Roulan, and tell her that she is recuperating from a fall.
身处2011年的白领张晓一觉醒来,发现自己来到了一个完全陌生的世界――清朝康熙年间的八贝勒府,被人称作二小姐“马尔泰・若曦”。身边的侍女巧慧告诉她,她是从楼梯上摔下来晕倒的,可事实上,那天她是与负心男友黄棣在街边争执,无意间触电撞上了飞驰而来的大货车,灵魂穿越到了清朝。