The presence of correlations in physical systems can be a significant characteristic that distinguishes quantum systems from classics. The quantification and utilization of quantum correlations are not only considered as core issues in quantum information theory, but also attract much attention of quantum thermodynamics community. For classical thermodynamics, heat spontaneously flows from hot to cold without showing a strong correlation for the isolated system. The entropy of a closed system tends to increase with time and this phenomenon can be regarded as the thermodynamics arrow of time. As a system advances through time, energy dissipation occurs, and it becomes more statically disordered. However, the aboveconclusions are not always valid in quantum area, due to the correlations between subsystems, even leading to the reverse flow of energy. This means that the formula of the second law of classical thermodynamics needs to be revised and using more physical quantities other than von Neumann entropy to show this non-classical quality. We here propose that quantum correlations between the subsystems can cause the energy to flow backward or accelerate the forward flow of energy. For explaining such phenomenon, we introduce the relative entropy and other thermodynamic parameters to quantitatively characterize the influence of correlations on the thermodynamic properties of quantum systems. These results show that the mutual information that characterizes the system correlations always decreases during evolution and then increases again when there exists a nonzero correlation terms among subsystems. Thus, we propose an experimental scheme based on the optical system to verify the correctness of the theory. tifying