Shen Zhao, a history graduate student who grew up in the military compound. His father, Shen Wangshan, is a senior general in the military region, and his mother, Su Wan, comes from the Su family in the south of the Yangtze River, which has been a scholar for a century. When he was a child, he listened to his grandfather telling stories about the war, and was forced by his grandfather to memorize the Four Books and Five Classics - red blood was engraved in his bones, and he was soaked in bookishness.
He deeply loves and hates modern history. Those unequal treaties, those ceded lands, those people displaced in the war - every time he turned over these, he wished he could go back and change them with his own hands.
One ordinary evening, on the way home from school, an orange-and-white cat led him into an alley he had never noticed before - No. 58 Fenghuo Lane. Walking out of the alley, the shouts of rickshaws, gowns, and newsboys were overwhelming.
He went back to 1930.
And only he can pass through this alley.
The family used their connections with several other members of the family to open up a secret supply line for him. The military officers each showed their talents - those who worked on technology, those who worked on intelligence, those who managed logistics, and several families in the military compound joined forces to deliver batches of strategic materials to the Republic of China.
At the other end of the compound, he found the Lu family, the most powerful warlord family in Central China. Lu Xingzhou, the third-generation marshal of the Lu family, was born in the German Military Academy, and his three confidants all possess special skills. He is cold-faced and cold-hearted, but he has an unquenchable passion for the country's future.
Shen Zhao entered Lu Xingzhou's world with a century of knowledge. Harsh conditions, impossible materials, life-threatening temptations again and again - trust cannot be bought with just one word.
And when he finally stood beside that person, they had to face the biggest crisis in modern history together.
