During the Jeongjo period of Joseon, Kim Yoon-hee (played by Park Min-young), the daughter of a declining aristocracy, disguised herself as a man and wrote essays for a living in order to make ends meet. In order to avoid the bad luck of the married person to repay the debt, Yun Hee took the risk of scientific research for others, and by mistake married the son of Zuo Xiang, "Jia Lang" Lee Xianjun (played by Park Youtian), and later with his secret help, he was selected into Sungkyunkwan in the name of his sick and weak brother Yun Zhi. Yoon-hee, who is full of joy and sorrow, is cautious in his words and deeds in the museum every day, and his outstanding talent is gradually revealed like a pearl luster, but it also incurs the jealousy of Ha In-so's faction, and he is often in crisis. But Yoon-hee always turned danger into a disaster, not only won the name of "big things", but also formed a like-minded dazzling foursome with Huanxi Jialang, "unruly" Moon Jae-shin (played by Yoo Ah-in), and "Nulin" Gu Yong-ha (played by Song Joong-ki).
The career of the students in the museum is constantly turbulent, and the political situation outside the museum is also turbulent. The masked knight "Red Wall Book" is about to expose the government scandal, and the "Words of the Golden Vine" he is looking for involves a shocking secret related to Yunxi's life experience......
This drama is adapted from the novel "Sungkyunkwan Romance" by Korean writer Jung Eun-que. © Douban