History is written by heroes. Who remembers the countless common folk? Peddlers and laborers, cart drivers and sellers of rice gruel, all taken for granted. The history books are vast as the sea, but is there even a single page, a single word, that records their lives? This is the story of an utterly ordinary, humble little man. As his friend put it, even if he wore the emperor’s robes, he still wouldn’t want to be the crown prince.
