His kowtowing caused an earthquake, and he beat his elder brother to death in a fight, killing the crown prince. After finally making it through an uneventful year, an unexpected bout of illness left him with a devastating trump card: his warhorses caught a plague, and the entire family had their heads on the line. Zhou Tong wakes up to find himself, by sheer coincidence, this unlucky fellow.
Armed with knowledge and insight a thousand years ahead of his time, Zhou Tong rises from humble beginnings. He is destined to stir up trouble in the coming Kaiyuan Golden Age and become a harbinger of doom whose name strikes fear into people's hearts.