In the 17th year of Emperor Yonghe's reign, the imperial court announced that "the four seas will be prosperous" and the whole country celebrated and worshiped heaven. However, the fields south of the Yangtze River were starved to death, and millions of victims had no harvest. All secret reports recording the famine were quietly erased, and local officials who wrote outspoken letters died suddenly from "emergency illnesses" one after another. No one knows that a mysterious organization called "Historians" has weaved a huge network between the court and the world to tamper with the truth. Shen Zhao, the head of the Supervision Department, who comes from a poor family, firmly believes that the system can save the people; Gu Hansheng, a lonely swordsman from a martial arts background, only believes that his fists can break the shackles. The two met because of an erased murder case, one trying to repair order, and the other determined to destroy lies. At the same time, Su Jinyan, a woman from an aristocratic family, discovered a shocking secret in her late father's posthumous manuscripts. Ye Zhaoning, the master of Jianghu, has been pursuing his father's revenge for six years and refused to look back. When official records are completely separated from human reality, when political intrigue is no longer personal ambition but a systematic lying machine - they discover that the biggest enemy is not a certain person, but the monopolized "truth" itself.
This is a life and death game about order and freedom, lies and truth. The situation is in the human world, and the failure is also in the human world.
This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.
